America's Table | Page 9

WE ARE THE STEWARDS OF AMERICA, her ideals and institutions, her cities and natural beauty. We are entrusted to understand America’s past and guide her future. To create an ever more just America that is secure and free, abundant and caring for all her inhabitants. We are thankful for the freedom to worship. We are thankful for the freedom to speak our minds. We are thankful for the freedom to change our minds. We are thankful for the freedom to chart our lives. We are thankful for the freedom to work for a better world. We are thankful for the freedom to celebrate this day. This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. —Theodore Roosevelt We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. —William Faulkner I ... try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women. —Ruth Bader Ginsberg 9