There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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