Of course, what I've said tonight matters little if we don't come together to protect our most precious resource: our children.

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Besides passing onto our children how utterly precious their individual difference is and to value the same difference in others, how can we hope to trounce the racists by the statute books or by bigger bolder fines for millionaire federations and millionaire players?

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"Children are our most precious resource and we want to give them the best possible start in life, " he said.

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The hope that so many of us feel when we look into the eyes of those precious children of ours -- our sons and daughters, our grandchildren.

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In that case, our children will face even higher taxes or lower spending over their precious lives.

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