sought tirelessly to instill in the soldiers under his command, the diplomats he led, the colleagues with whom he worked, the reeders of his books, the audiences that flocked to the speeches, the stunts of the powell school for civic and global leadership and the thousands of young people who benefited from the america s promise alliance that alma and he championed. he relished the opportunity to connect with other generations. and it s always the right time he told us and i quote to reach out to someone who s wanting to look up and to each in our own way to help put that fellow american on the road to success. a first listener and in government the ultimate team player, colin was nevertheless always true to himself. he could not be moved by any threat or tempts promise to depart from what he felt was right. he had a code, instilled by his
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1847 as the free academy of new york. first one like it in the country where we are going to take all of the kids of the people of all of the people and give them a chance to get an education. and it s been doing that for all of these years. it took me in in 1954 as just a kid born in harlem and raised in the south bronx and allowed me to go into the army and compete with guys from west point and harvard and princeton and otherwise. the reason i got the education because the citizens of new york said, what do we have that is more important to do than to educate the next generation? and now in this phase of my life, i m back at ccny with the powell school for civic and global leadership and proud of it. i m doing the same thing with the people up there for a new generation of minority kids and immigrant kids that was done for me so many many years ago. i want to show a clip of you at ccny, it may be at the opening of the powell school.
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