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" America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis. "
Cory Booker
Rich
Enough
America
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" Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. "
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" I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit. "
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" I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. "
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" In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. "
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" We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray. "
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" Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. "
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Manifest
Single
" Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. "
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Right
Choice
" In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. "
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Win
Game
" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "
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Trying
Succeed
People
" My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story. "
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Family
You
" It takes too much energy to hate. "
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Takes
Too
Energy
" Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. "
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Difficult
Hard
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" Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights. "
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Tree
Democracy
Earth
" When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too. "
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Know
People
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" Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise. "
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Together
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" We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. "
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American
Together
Strong
" You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. "
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You
Physical
Spiritual
" Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future. "
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Soul
Future
Find
" What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. "
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Dignity
Understand
Need
" If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves. "
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Nation
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Great
" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "
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Challenges
Most
Realize
" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "
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About
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Cynicism
" If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences. "
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" Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. "
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Inclusive
" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "
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Choice
You
Responsibility
" If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril. "
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Opportunities
Children
Quality
" You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself. "
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Darkness
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" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
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Simple
Disgust
Felt
" If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. "
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Great
Failure
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