A parent is a child's first teacher. My mother did not read me nursery rhymes, but she made sure early on that I knew the words of Toussaint Louverture, 'I was born a slave, but Nature gave me the soul of a free man.'
Ayanna Pressley: “A parent is a child's first teacher. My mother did not read me nursery rhymes, but she made sure early on that I knew…”
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Pressley emphasizes the importance of education and heritage in her advocacy for Haiti.
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