Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
ROBERT KENNEDYWe 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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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 believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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 future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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 natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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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.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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