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Quotes from An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream — Julian Castro

born 1974 United States

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This inequity in our country's education system has never stopped seeming like one of our most chronic problems.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

I realized that I would be much better off just being myself around people. That way I'd attract friends who liked the real me, not some person I was trying to be.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

College is fantastic for a variety of reasons, but that opportunity to bond with people of very different backgrounds, to pull knowledge-big and small-from such a diverse pool, is invaluable, especially in the formative years.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

Embrace your own unlikely journey.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

we, as Americans, are more alike than different.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

Teaching is one of the most creative and exhausting jobs I have ever had. Clever political adversaries, irate constituents, and elbow-throwing litigators were never as tough to handle as those students were on a daily basis.

An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julian Castro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.