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"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."

"What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will."


- Barack Obama
44th President of The United States of America
First Black American President of The United States of America

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"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

"Let's stop screaming at each other. Let's just take care of each other..."


- Gen. Colin Powell
4 Star General of the US Army
First Black American Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
First Black American Secretary of State of The United States of America

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"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."

"For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny."


- Ronald Reagan
40th President of The United States of America

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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."


- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., PhD
US Civil Rights Movement Leader
American Baptist Minister

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"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or make it the last."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."


- John F. Kennedy
35th President of The United States of America

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"If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted."

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."


- Abraham Lincoln
16th President of The United States of America

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"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech."

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."


- Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of The United States of America
First Postmaster General of The United States of America
Accomplished Scientist, Inventor, and Publicist

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"You cannot rationally disagree with something if you don't know and understand what that something is. Learn about it before you decide to dismiss it."

"Everybody is special, but nobody is special ..."


- My Father

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☆☆☆ Proud Veteran of the United States Navy ☆☆☆ "Non sibi sed patriae"