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In a world littered with economic instability and job insecurities, why must we make THIS election about race... Has it not always been about that???


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GEORGE WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Is...
KERRY WASHINGTON Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proporti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I...
KERRY WASHINGTON I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan ado...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since child...
KERRY WASHINGTON My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is wor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned...
MARTHA WASHINGTON