"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy."

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"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."

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"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever."

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"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down."

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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."

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"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

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"It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other."

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"A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live."

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"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."

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"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear."

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