It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.
Kamala HarrisRead
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Interpretation
Howard graduates have a significant impact on society and future generations.
Kamala Harris emphasizes the importance of Howard University graduates, suggesting that each generation contributes positively to social progress and innovation. This quote asserts that education, particularly from an institution like Howard University, equips graduates with the tools and vision necessary to lead and inspire change in society.
In practice
In a graduation speech to motivate students about their potential impact on society.
It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
I believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime. So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
Our kids didn't do this to themselves. They don't decide the sugar content in soda or the advertising content of a television show. Kids don't choose what's served to them for lunch at school, and shouldn't be deciding what's served to them for dinner at home. And they don't decide whether there's time in the day or room in the budget to learn about healthy eating or to spend time playing outside.
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.
I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
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