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“All students deserve to go to school and have the right to learn and grow without fear of harassment or discrimination,” Gaylynn Burroughs, vice president of education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center, said in a statement.

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"I cannot take my kids who were born in the USA, and go back with them to Haiti. How are they gonna leave?" he said, adding: "When you say you have to send them back home, you send your own kids to a country that they don't know. They have the right to live here."

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There was a whole generation of young people your age, teenagers, younger than teenagers, who knew their generation was not going to have the right to vote.

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The initiative — drafted by renters’ rights groups, homeless service providers, affordable housing nonprofits and labor unions — was designed to bolster social housing across the city, allocating 22.5% of its funding to “alternative housing models” in which “residents shall have the right to participate directly and meaningfully in decision-making concerning the operation and management of the project.”

Pete Buttigieg pressed the point that men are also freer in a country where women have the right to choose.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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