- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
- Teach
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
- Alumni
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The America I love is slipping away.
- Enlightenment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think solving the problems of America is what's good.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual freedom.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020