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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.

Robert Kennedy

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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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 believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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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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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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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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