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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

Robert Kennedy

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
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
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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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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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God Live Ourselves Response White
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
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
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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Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
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 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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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
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
In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Fulfillment Future Hands Lying Spirit World Yourself
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
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
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
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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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
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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Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance

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