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.
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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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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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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 greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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