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" Newark faces real challenges. "
Cory Booker
Real
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" I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.' "
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" I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety. "
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" The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health. "
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" Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. "
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" When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. "
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" After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. "
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" I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. "
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" I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. "
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" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "
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" It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time. "
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" If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves. "
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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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" I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am. "
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" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "
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People
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Capture
" Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. "
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Need
" We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. "
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" I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen. "
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" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "
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" You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are. "
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" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "
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Community
" What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing. "
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" I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way. "
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" The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community. "
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" I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life. "
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" I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light. "
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" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "
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" I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood. "
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" 'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. "
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" I have got the job of my dreams. "
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