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.
ROBERT KENNEDYPunishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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