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" You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. "
Cory Booker
Convenience
You
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" We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause. "
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" Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected. "
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" My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. "
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" I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys. "
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" Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree. "
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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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Earth
" My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism. "
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Time
Boy
Mother
" My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. "
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History
Freedom
Children
" The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are. "
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Constitution
Year
Think
" I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still. "
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America
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Think
" I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey. "
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Parents
Church
Black
" It takes too much energy to hate. "
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Takes
Too
Energy
" If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while. "
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Just
Nice
Things
" Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. "
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Marriage
Right
Choice
" These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. "
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Themes
Life
Judaism
" We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox. "
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Out
Done
Got
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Darkness
Yourself
You
" 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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Health
Mental Health
War
" You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine. "
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You
Powerful
Beautiful
" Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. "
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Just
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" I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial. "
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Cry
Commercial
Come
" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "
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Nation
Seek
Change
" My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about. "
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Clear
Me
Manhood
" As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation. "
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I Can
Leader
Government
" I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. "
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Great
Think
Prison
" Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. "
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Toxic
Cynicism
Give
" May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us. "
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Achievement
America
Fight
" 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
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Quality
" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "
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Never
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" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "
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Growth
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