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.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?
It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.
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