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I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

— Robert F. Kennedy

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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