"A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty."

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Source : "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

Charles Rangel

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“Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity â€œLove Rideâ€ by donating a painting to this cause.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.”
“I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.”
“We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.”

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“We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.”
“No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.”
“Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.”
“Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.”

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