What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhile free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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