"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

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"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

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