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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
- Age Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
- No Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, there are no friends.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020