"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.“
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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
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"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."
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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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"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."
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