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

Robert Kennedy

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
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
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
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
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
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
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
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
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
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
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
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
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
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
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
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Children Greatness Man Potential Recognition Truth
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Man Myself Question Sight
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
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
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
We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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