From a young lady in 2009: "We are not quitters."

[The Straight Story]

Obama in 2009:

"And I think about Ty’Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina – a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by their classroom. She has been told that her school is hopeless, but the other day after class she went to the public library and typed up a letter to the people sitting in this room. She even asked her principal for the money to buy a stamp. The letter asks us for help, and says, "We are just students trying to become lawyers, doctors, congressmen like yourself and one day president, so we can make a change to not just the state of South Carolina but also the world. We are not quitters."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/issues/Seniors-%2526-Social-Security?page=3

2011

ALPHARETTA, GA, April 21, 2011 /Georgia PR News/ -- On Monday morning, a crowd converged at the new Dillon Middle School construction site at 1803 Joan Drive, in Dillon, South Carolina. The original school, J.V. Martin Junior High School, built in 1896, suffers from roof leaks and winter classroom temperatures in the 50s; a portion of the building is condemned. When special guests and media arrived to the ceremony for the new facility, their focus was on the esteemed keynote speaker. A speaker, who was not only the catalyst for the school's makeover, but who also helped to raise approximately $40,000 in aid for the dilapidated building. A speaker, who, as of this exact hour, minute, and second, is a 16-year-old tenth grade student.

http://georgiaprnews.com/georgia_articles/2011/04/dillon-middle-school-groundbreaking-ceremony-brings-tysheoma-bethea-back-into-the-spotlight-and-into-the-hearts-of-area-citizens-and-media-208863.htm

"We are not quitters."

Those were the words of one young lady just hoping to have a future.

We are not quitters either. We will continue to speak out, complain, and rally people to vote in a manner that best serves all the people and not just some.

We cannot quit, we will not. We won't sit quietly by as those we employ fail to do that which is right.

Hope and Change was not the slogan for one election, but for them all.

Our kids should not have to write such letters - and shame on those who made it that way and continue to do so.