Brick by brick, block by block, our communities are being made whole again.

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And so the white widow of a railroad tycoon and a black social worker from Arkansas founded what would become the Urban League, to strengthen our cities and our communities brick by brick, and block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood, life by life.

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And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

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One side of a brick apartment building that shares the block with JJ's appeared to have been scorched.

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Troops moved forward block by block, hunting for cover behind crumbling mud-brick walls and houses.

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