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Sam Motes
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We went to war because our country asked us to go, because our new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, ordered us to go, but more importantly because we saw it as our duty to go. That is one kind of love.
“Read books by people whose perspective is different from yours, listen to voices you haven’t heard before, look for narratives that are new to you. In them and with them, you might end up finding more room for yourself.”
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“Another found that achievement gaps between rich and poor children form and harden before kindergarten.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“No state had a child poverty rate higher than Mississippi’s, at roughly 28 percent, which is also the child poverty rate of Costa Rica.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“When it comes to climate justice, democracy knows no borders.”
― The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
― The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
“In the history of the nation, there has only been one other state-sponsored initiative more antifamily than mass incarceration, and that was slavery.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
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