A Quote by Marilyn C. Nelson
Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.
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"No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will."
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Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them.
We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.
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