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Children and education
“I believe that a child going without an education is a crime,” Kamala Harris says.
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Women and decisions
“No woman should be told she can’t make her own decisions about her body,” Kamala Harris says.
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Wait and be calm
“By waiting and by calm you shall be saved. In quiet and in trust your strength lies.” –Isaiah30:15 I found this verse in Martin Laird’s book Into the Silent Land.
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The time is now
In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris quotes James Baldwin: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment. The time is now.”
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A valuable rule
Judaism says: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow humans.” The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…
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The Golden Rule
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “It means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The Golden Rule.
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A dream of peace
“We must begin with a world perspective, for we will not be able to realize the American Dream until we work to realize a world dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “A world dream of peace, and brotherhood, and goodwill.”
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A warning about our democracy
Heather Cox Richardson, the author of Democracy Awakening, warns us: “Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”