Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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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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What 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 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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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