I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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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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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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