American - Politician | April 27, 1969 -
You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
Cory Booker
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You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.
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I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.
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My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.
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Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.
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I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'
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Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
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Do not forget from whence you've come.
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I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.
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Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
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Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.
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The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.
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