I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

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As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. — Robert Orben

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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

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I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion

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The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

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Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I’d thought. -- Kathryn Stockett

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Men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments. -- Sheryl Sandberg

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The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. -- Sheryl Sandberg

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What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts, to Alexander Hamilton and Martin Luther King Jr. Not told as a separate history, but as part of the story we all know. Not at the margins, but at the very center, the protagonists of the drama. And not just because they are black, or because they are women, but because they are part of the American epic. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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