"The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation."

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Source : "The Struggle Continues for Civil Rights" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

Charles Rangel

#Dream Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.”
“I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE.”

Source : Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. June 4, 2008.
“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”
“If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.”
“If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.”
“They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.”
“If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.”
“In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.”

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