We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
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