"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert Kennedy
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"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.“
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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 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?"
-Robert Kennedy
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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