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![“My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this every night before I do the song 'The Boys of Fall' in the show - I'm really happy about where I grew up and how I grew up.” quote by Kenny Chesney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/466/kenny-chesney-2066_boys_my-elementary-school-is-still-there-in-l_2594245.jpg)
![“[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my…” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7c/martin-luther-king-jr-127_approved_malcolm-x-had-said-a-great-deal-about-no_3056569.jpg)
![“It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who grew up in this country, and who go to the same school you once went to... They thought if we only enforce the law, people will self-deport…” quote by Mike Coffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/318/mike-coffman-20772_abstract_it-s-different-when-you-talk-about-immig_1944499.jpg)
![“I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt yard. Never in my life should I have been a success. So that's what I love about this country [USA], is you get out there and you have the opportunity and you work hard at it, and you can be a…” quote by Jeff Foxworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d4/jeff-foxworthy-939_airports_i-just-love-people-i-love-this-country-i_465726.jpg)
