To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. But a nation that destroys its children has no future worth saving.
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In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but certainly not caregivers. And yet for every tale of a lion or chimp dad eating its own young (yikes!), there's another creature who tells a sweeter story.
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I didn't want my kids to think that anything else was more important than them, not being in the streets, not women, not gambling, not hustling, not anything. I didn't want them to ever think that anything that I was doing was more important than them. And my father made me at times feel unimportant to him.
Ali Siddiq — Fresh Air
My father made me at times feel unimportant to him. I played sports. He went to one game. Out of all the sports that I played, he went to one game.
Ali Siddiq — Fresh Air