Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.
From Cory Booker
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.
There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.
I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.
Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.
Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.
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