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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Robert Kennedy

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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Build Contribution Effort Judgment Order World
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
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.
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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
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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Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
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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Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Goal Human Liberty Society Value
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Dreams Myself Question Sight
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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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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Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
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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Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
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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Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right

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