In 2006, while still in his thirties, Cory Booker was elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey. With degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University (where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar), he moved to Newark during his final year at Yale Law School. In the years that followed, he lived in a troubled housing complex in the city’s Central Ward, advocated for education reform, served on the City Council, and founded the non-profit organization Newark Now. Unconventional in his approach to urban issues, he represents a new generation of pragmatic urban politicians. Since his election, Newark has seen a significant reduction in crime, doubled the amount of affordable housing under construction, slashed the city budget, and attracted over $100 million in private philanthropy.
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- Stand up for something.
- You will always face outrageous adversaries.
- Regardless of the storm you must be willing to stand.
- Before you can stand tall you have to understand you the result of a grand conspiracy of love.
- You have a choice: will you grow dumb, fat, and happy as you feast on what was provided for you.
- OR, will metabolize your blessings and stand up and use them for what they were intended for?
- What will you do?
- Everyone is born an original, sadly most die copies.
- You were born unique.
- Don’t let the world defeat you or seduce you into mediocrity.
- In the midst of people who seem to be reaching higher than you, head for the roof!
- You have a divinity within you.
- You have access to untold opportunities… you must claim them.
- Don’t let the world tell you who you are.
- Don’t accept your existence as it is.
- We are the result of those people who did not see the world as other people saw it.
- In the midst of slavery they saw freedom.
- In the midst of denial of basic rights they saw suffrage.
- We were here because of people who had extraordinary vision and courage to do something about it.
- Your attitude about the world says nothing about the world, it speaks to your character.
- The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.
- Never let the world outside of you dim the courage and hope inside of you.
- Be the change you want to see in the world.
- The only way to make change in the world is to start with one’s self.
- If it’s supposed to be, it’s up to me.
- If we live our values we can create radical transformation.
- History is a perpetual testimony to the achievement of the impossible.
- Before you tell me what you want to teach or preach, show me first how you choose to live and give.
- Who you are speaks so loudly that people can’t hear one thing you say.
- There are so many distractions from the profound potential to do God’s work in this world.
- Right now, in this moment, YOU can change the world.
- God is not done with me yet.
- Don’t miss the opportunity God has put right in front of you to show your truth to the world.
- You have one choice: accept circumstances as they are or take responsibility for changing them.
- We are stars… if we don’t live life brilliantly, we won’t leave a legacy of light and illumination.
- Don’t dim.
- Bring light into the darkness.
- Turn barriers into blessings.
- We have the power to transform the world we just get caught up in our own drama.
- Don’t trip over people God has put in front of you for a reason.
- Are we evidencing our truth?
- You should do something.
- Let us stand because people stood for us.
- Let us stand.
