Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
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Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember
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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
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You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.
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Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!
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You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!
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I think it's all going to come together, ... It's just going to take a few days. We're going to learn by trial and error.
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It costs us more to provide transportation than what we get back, ... (But the increase in fees) will help us offset that cost.
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It could be (you have) below normal precipitation but your snowfall is higher because you have less rainfall.
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I think the key was that our defensive guys were fresh in the third and fourth quarters. That's because seven of them only go one way,
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I think the key to our team's success is that we are the ultimate team. We hang out. We go do things together, and we love to play ball together. I think that a big part of it (success) is that we know that we have each others' backs. It is fun to play ball with your friends, and when you are having fun, you play better.
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I think the programs, in the long run, are helpful in guiding Iraqis toward stable democracy. Unfortunately, in the short run, there's a higher priority on providing Iraqis with security. And much of the funds that may have been available before for these programs were diverted, I think, to protect Iraqis. And I think that's logical because you can't practice democracy if personal security is perpetually at risk.
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I think the notion of college readiness as a goal for increasing numbers of our students ... is going to become increasingly important.