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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--to-morrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther...and one fine morning--" F. Scott Fitzgerald, //The Great Gatsby// media type="youtube" key="qq7qZrXYtvk" height="315" width="560" align="center"

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America-there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America--There's the United States of America." -Barack Obama

I, Too, Sing America Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.

Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Eat in the kitchen," <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Then.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Besides, <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">They'll see how beautiful I am <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">And be ashamed--

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I, too, am America.

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"The search for truly democratic alternatives to the present, and a commitment to social experimentation with them, is a worthy and fulfilling human enterprise, one which moves us, and, we hope, others today."--Tom Hayden, //The Port Huron Statement// ==== **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"This is the begining--from ' I ' to 'we.'" John Steinbeck, //The Grapes of Wrath// ** "America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles."--Ernest Istook <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">"Americans...still believe in an America where anything's possible..." -Barack Obama

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living" - Steven Spielberg
media type="youtube" key="m5TwT69i1lU" height="315" width="420" <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." -Abraham Lincoln Home <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">WHAT WE ARE DOING ABOUT IT  <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">WHAT WE NEED TO DO ABOUT IT  <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">WHAT WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO INHERIT  <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">Reflecting on what we want our children to inherit

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