Greatness Is Helping Others Realize They Are

It Is Okay Not To Like Someone, But It Is Never Okay To Try And Degrade, Humiliate, Or Dehumanize Them.

In Life, It Is Never The Big Battle, The Big Moment, The Big Speech, The Big Election. That Does Not Change Things. What Changes Things Is Every Day, Getting Up And Rendering Small Acts Of Service And Love Beyond That What's Expected Of You Or Required Of You.

Here, We Have A Country That Is Making Its Veterans, People Who Are Struggling With Post-traumatic Stress, People Who Are Struggling With Depression, Who Often They're Only Hope Is Their Access To Marijuana To Treat These Illnesses, And Here We Are Criminalizing Them For Doing What's Necessary To Stabilize Their Lives As A Result Of Their Service. This Is Not Who We Are As A Country. We Are Better Than This.

You Need To Understand Something, You Drink Deeply From Wells Of Freedom And Liberty And Opportunity That You Did Not Dig. You Eat Lavishly From Banquet Tables Prepared For You By Your Ancestors. You Sit Under The Shade Of Trees That You Did Not Plant Or Cultivate Or Care For. You Have A Choice In Life, You Can Just Sit Back, Getting Fat, Dumb, And Happy, Consuming All The Blessings Put Before You, Or It Can Metabolize Inside Of You, Become Fuel To Get You Into The Fight, To Make This Democracy Real, To Make It True To Its Words That We Can Be A Nation Of Liberty And Justice For All.

We Should Not Be Scrimping On Investments In Public Safety. The Lack Of Infrastructure Spending Is Costing Us Lives In America. It's Costing Every Commuter.