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Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

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You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

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Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains.

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Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

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My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.

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I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'

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I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

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Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

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I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success.

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I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.

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Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

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I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

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We need a president that can heal, that can bring people together, that can get us back. We have so much common pain in this country that can get us back to a sense of common purpose and common cause.

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We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

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My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.

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I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

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I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

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When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too.

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We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.

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You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

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