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“The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship provided me with tremendous opportunities. I feel a joyful obligation to use social entrepreneurship, public policy, and politics to ensure that our country continues…
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"I came to the United States when I was thirteen years old. We came illegally. At the time I did not even know that I could go to college."
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"My work promoting civil rights and civil liberties to defending the constitution of the United States is fundamentally integral to who I am."
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"The immigrant population in the United States, deeply poor, extremely vulnerable...one of the neediest populations that exists in this country. People who deeply need help."
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"I came from a place that has a high level of poverty...I've seen it. I've lived it."
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"To survive the Holocaust. Taken prisoner of war by the Russians from where I escaped. I felt that by the time I got here all the difficult things were behind me."
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Diverse Backgrounds and Disciplines
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"Some come from relatively privileged backgrounds. Others come from truly deprived situations." (Music composed by Paola Prestini, Soros Fellow class of 1999 and music performed by Elizabeth Joy…
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"These young people have never been advantaged because they were immigrants and so, suddenly, they have a fellowship which says the only reason you are eligible is because you are an immigrant." (Music…
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The Responsibility of Citizenship
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"They've worked on a campaign, they've registered voters, they've taught English as a second language. Something that says I am going to be taken seriously in this polity."
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"Our Fellows, because they had this money, don't have that debt, are really able to do what they want to do, what they are driven to do, what their passions tell them they should do."
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"MIT was $30 a credit, Harvard was $26 a credit, Columbia $20. When I got here I had $17 and a Leica camera."
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"My intention, at least on some level, was to do rule of law work in countries similar to the ones where I had grown up...where there were no functioning legal systems. 9/11 happened and, of course,…
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