It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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- This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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