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Reflecting on what we want our children to inherit:

I hope that by the time that my generation has kids, they will be born into a different country than we were born into. I hope our children are not born with the apathetic and defeated attitudes that plague so many people in my generation. I hope our children are dreamers, like Gatsby, and that they will all sing America, like Langston Hughes, regardless of their race, class, gender, or sexual orientation. I hope that our children all have the capacity to dream, to hope, to wonder, and to aspire. I want our children to inherit the drive and determination to work toward something greater. I hope that our children are born into a world where entire populations of people are no longer denied their basic human rights. I hope that, like Obama said, our children will all believe in an America where anything is possible. I hope that by the time our children are born into this country, we have already made the transition from "I" to "We" that John Steinbeck urges in //The Grapes of Wrath//. These hopes for a better future provide the framework for what we want our children to inherit.     Home WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED WHAT WE ARE DOING ABOUT IT WHAT WE NEED TO DO ABOUT IT WHAT WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO INHERIT