"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
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"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.“
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
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"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."
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