WE ARE THE STEWARDS OF AMERICA,
her ideals and institutions, her cities and natural beauty.
We are entrusted to understand America’s past and guide
her future.
To create an ever more just America that is secure and free,
abundant and caring for all her inhabitants.
We are thankful for the freedom to worship.
We are thankful for the freedom to speak our
minds.
We are thankful for the freedom to change
our minds.
We are thankful for the freedom to chart our
lives.
We are thankful for the freedom to work for a
better world.
We are thankful for the freedom to celebrate
this day.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
—Theodore Roosevelt
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but
because we practice it.
—William Faulkner
I ... try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches,
how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what
they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or
women.
—Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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