Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat 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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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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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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