“We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward.”

—  Cory Booker

[Kopan, Tal, Black senators eye future generation, https://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/black-senators-meeting-tim-scott-103928, 21 August 2018, Politico, February 26, 2014]
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35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress 1969

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