American - Politician | April 27, 1969 -
Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
Cory Booker
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As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
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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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After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.
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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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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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America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.
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Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.
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We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.
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In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.
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These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.
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We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.
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