Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
ROBERT KENNEDYEach time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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