All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
ROBERT KENNEDYI believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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