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Cory Booker Biography

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013. The first African-American U.S. Senator from New Jersey, he was previously the 36th Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. Before that Booker served on the Newark City Council for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.

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Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

Heart, Live Life, Silenced, Soul, Truth

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Expectations, Give, Giving, Helping Others, Respect

What I don't want to see my Democratic party do is to begin to talk down towards white men, as if their concerns are not legitimate and that we shouldn't be listening to a lot of their aspirations and hopes as well.

Hopes, Listening, Men, Party, Talk, Towards

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Act, Inspirational, Kindness, Remember, Small Acts, Today

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe. . . Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

Battle, Fighting, Light, Mission, Show, World

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

America, Black, Central, Lives, Movement, Understand

Gender bias is real. I was an early Barack Obama supporter, and I was even shocked at the way the media treated President Obama vs. how they treated Secretary Hillary Clinton. Questions that were asked about, what is wearing, how much does she weigh, about her hair were never ascribed to the president.

Bias, Gender, Obama, President, Real

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

American, Apply, Color, Hard Work, Jobs, Talents

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

Cynicism, Faint, Imagination, Limits, Wise

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

Apathy, Despair, Hate, Kindness, Love, Power

Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.

Acts, Beautiful, Cutting, Hate, Mock, Take

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

Corfield, Marie, Work, Working, Worry

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Acts, Ambition, Dream, Life, Moments, Simple

The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

Central, Country, Deal, Focused, Home, Oakland

The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.

Accept, Country, Dream, Dreams, Reflection, Refused

I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities. . . the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.

Challenges, Ideals, Opportunity, Spirit, Talking, Vision

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a minority, that they're not going to get the white male vote.

Competitor, Hey, Vote, White, Woman

I sit in the Senate, and see what Republicans are often advocating, it's those kind of tax loopholes for the richest of the rich or, frankly, for corporations and giving incentives for them to move jobs and opportunity overseas.

Giving, Loopholes, Moving, Opportunity, Republicans

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Abroad, Country, Deficit, Home, War, Wealthy

We want everybody to think about what's in their interests. And I believe that our Democratic party platform has a better vision and better actually pathway for white Americans, as well black Americans, Latino Americans, women, and so forth, to be successful.

Believe, Democratic, Party, Pathway, Successful, Think

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