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?
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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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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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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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