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.
ROBERT KENNEDYProgress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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I dream of things that are not 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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