"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 Kennedy
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"There are those who 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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"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
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"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."
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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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"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
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