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" Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development. "
Laura Moser
Good
Us
School
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" As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves. "
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Life
Parents
Better
" If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself. "
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Going
Change
Myself
" Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat. "
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Sunday
Path
Community
" I believe in following opportunities. "
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I Believe
Believe
Opportunities
" In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens. "
Laura Moser
Journalism
Book
Parenting
" Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction. "
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Days
Attractive
Pursue
" I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland. "
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Ohio
Always
Wanted
" With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes. "
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Growing
Ability
Keep
" We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right? "
Laura Moser
Right
Feeding
Behind
" If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans. "
Laura Moser
Day
Tools
Values
" A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me. "
Laura Moser
Career
Waiting
Thoughts
" It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. "
Laura Moser
Red
Say
Truism
" Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that. "
Laura Moser
Houston
Proud
People
" As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer. "
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Smart
More
Nation
" New York City has an integration problem. "
Laura Moser
New York
City
New
" Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us. "
Laura Moser
Abortion
Us
Immigration
" You have to follow that next step. "
Laura Moser
Step
Follow
Next
" I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx. "
Laura Moser
Mother
Up
Man
" I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer. "
Laura Moser
Writer
Journalist
Basically
" Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists. "
Laura Moser
Stop
Become
Very
" I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them. "
Laura Moser
Up
Idea
More
" I don't claim any great experience or expertise. "
Laura Moser
Expertise
Any
Experience
" I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table. "
Laura Moser
Myself
Problem
Work
" The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people. "
Laura Moser
You
People
Treat
" There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights. "
Laura Moser
Rights
Abortion
Education
" What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject. "
Laura Moser
School
American
Constitution
" I was a campaign widow. "
Laura Moser
Campaign
Widow
" I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one. "
Laura Moser
Always
Landscape
Reality
" In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together. "
Laura Moser
Life
Night
School
" Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. "
Laura Moser
Grit
Intelligence
Predict