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.
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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I 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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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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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