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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Robert Kennedy

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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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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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Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
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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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
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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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Dreams Myself Question Sight
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
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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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
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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Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing

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