The real answer is found in the hearts of decent, caring people who have heard the call to love their neighbors as they would like to be loved themselves. We must rally the armies of compassion that are in every community of this state. We must encourage them to love, to nurture, to mentor, to help and thus to offer hope to those who have none. As we do to the least of us, we do to ourselves. The second challenge is to become an educated society.
Education is freedom.
Now by educated, I mean two things. They must be literate in the language of the 21st century. They must be ready to compete. They must be challenged to be the very best students they can be. And we must never leave any child behind by pushing him forward.