Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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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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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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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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