We have to improve life not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

Dorothy Height
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  1. We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.

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