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What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

— Robert F. Kennedy Day of Affirmation Address (1966)

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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.

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

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