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" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "
College
Life
Children
" Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. "
Anything
Feel
Struggle
" Education is a precondition to survival in America today. "
Survival
America
Education
" Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. "
Better
Education
Community
" Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. "
Family
Everything
I Am
" Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes. "
Problems
Consequences
Children
" I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. "
Feeling
Day
Perfect
" If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. "
Up
Children
Stand Up
" 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. "
World
Way
Time
" Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. "
You
Yourself
Enough
" No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. "
Without
Said
Never
" No person has the right to rain on your dreams. "
Your Dreams
Rain
Right
" Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. "
Honor
Work
Today
" Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. "
Forget
Parents
Children
" People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. "
Credit
Line
Act
" 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. "
Gender
Society
Remember
" Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. "
Life
Rent
Service
" 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. "
Place
Challenge
Justice
" 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. "
Justice
Vision
American
" The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. "
Own
Trust
People
" We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. "
America
Problem
Values
" We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. "
Time
Small
Differences
" 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. "
You
Will
Parents
" 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. "
Need
Dog
Enough
" You really can change the world if you care enough. "
Change The World
World
Change
" You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. "
Day
You
Every Day
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