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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”<\/em>
\n-The Declaration of Independence (1776)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“A little revolution now and then is a good thing.”<\/em>
\n-Thomas Jefferson (1787)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.\u00a0 More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.\u00a0 Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.<\/em><\/p>\n

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance.\u00a0 We are stricken by no plague of locusts.\u00a0 Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.”<\/em>
\n-Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933)<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident.\u00a0 That all men are created equal…<\/em><\/p>\n

…I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.\u00a0 I have a dream today!”<\/em>
\n-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“Come gather ’round people
\nWherever you roam
\nAnd admit that the waters
\nAround you have grown
\nAnd accept it that soon
\nYou’ll be drenched to the bone.
\nIf your time to you
\nIs worth savin’
\nThen you better start swimmin’
\nOr you’ll sink like a stone
\nFor the times they are a-changin’.”<\/em>
\n-Bob Dylan (1963)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“This great, rich, restless country can offer opportunity and education and hope to all, all black and white, all North and South, sharecropper and city dweller.\u00a0 These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease.\u00a0 They’re our enemies, not our fellow man, not our neighbor.\u00a0 And these enemies too – poverty, disease, and ignorance: we shall overcome.”<\/em>
\n-Lyndon Baines Johnson (1965)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“Yes we can.”<\/em>
\n-Barack Hussein Obama (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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