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“So often we hear the phrase that 'children are our greatest hope.' Well, they are a great source of hope—mainly because of their innocence and potential. But before children can be our hope, we must be theirs; and we are their hope when we teach them that there is a difference between right and wrong. When they feel empathy and know the respect for life that flows from it. When they understand that cynicism is a kind of violence and that all violence is intolerable. When they believe in the power of loyalty and duty. When, in other words, we have given them a compass and shown them that north is constant, and that each of them can chart his or her own course toward the right thing.”