"All the folks that we would go out and send our children to go and meet around the world are clear about our history, and we’re going to send our own children out to not know what it is? Building in a handicap for our children, that they are going to be the ones in the room who don’t know their own history when the rest of the world does?"
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Kamala Harris, “Remarks by Vice President Harris on the Florida State Board of Education Curriculum Updates”, Ritz Theatre and Museum Jacksonville, Florida, (July 21, 2023)
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