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Speaking out in
AMERICA
Few are willing to brave the disapproval
of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery
in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields
most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-Robert
F. Kennedy
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