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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

Robert Kennedy

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
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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Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Criticism Life Live Worth
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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Leadership Nation Ourselves Strength World
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
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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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Act Himself Hope Ideal Injustice Man Stand Time
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Children Greatness Man Potential Recognition Truth
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
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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Dreams Myself Question Sight
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking

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