"We must remember that any oppression, any
injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our
civilization."
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"A
nation, like a person, has a mind—a mind that must be kept
informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands
the hopes and needs of its neighbors—all the other nations
that live within the narrowing circle of the world."
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"If
we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the
world safe for diversity."
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"What
kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on
the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the
grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about
genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth
worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow
and to hope and to build a better life for their children—
not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and
women— not merely peace in our time but peace for all time."
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"The
great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—
deliberate, contrived and dishonest— but the myth—
persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
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"Let
us think of education as the means of developing our
greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private
hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into
benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
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"For in the final
analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit
this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all
cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal." |
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