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.
ROBERT KENNEDYTogether, 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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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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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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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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