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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.

— 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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