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Dream It, Believe It, Do It!

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.  Benjamin Franklin

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.  Frederick Douglass

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.  Jesse Jackson

Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.  John F. Kennedy

A Note from Tom:

We live in a society where we often take liberty and freedom for granted.  Yet freedom and liberty can only be maintained if we know our history and are willing to protect our future.  This past weekend in the United Kingdom was another example of a few radicals willing to unleash terror on an unsuspecting population.  As we celebrate our Independence Day holiday, please remember the thousands of individuals who have perished in battle to protect those sacred ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Happy Fourth of July!  

Do You Know the Answers to These Questions? (Answers found below Barry Manilow’s Let Freedom Ring

1. Where was Neil Armstrong when he said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind?
2. Which US President first spoke of a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”?
3. What American document became the law of the land in 1788?
4. What American document turned the thirteen colonies into the United States of America?
5. What symbol of freedom was a gift from the people of France to the people of the US?
6. What bird serves as the symbol of the United States?
7. How many states joined the union when George Washington first became President in 1789?
8. What do we call the first ten amendments to the US Constitution?
9. Our national government is made up of three branches.  Can you name them?
10. How many senators does each state send to the United States Senate?

Let Freedom Ring
Music by Barry Manilow, Lyric by Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman

My country, 'tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims pride,
from ev'ry mountainside

Let Freedom Ring, let it's music resound throughout the nation.
Let it celebrate sweet liberty that is keeping us free and strong
Let Freedom Ring, and let everyone share its inspiration.

Let the promise not be satisfied until no one's denied its song
It's a dream to build upon.
We take the dream and pass it on (and on) and on (and on) and on

Let Freedom ring for the children of ev-ry generation]
May the love of freedom always ring and let everyone sing a long
It's a dream (it's a dream) to build upon.
We'll take the dream and pass it on (and on) and on (and on)
and let freedom sing, (Let freedom ring.)

Let freedom ring, for the children of ev'ry generation
May the love of freedom always ring; it has brought us this far (it has brought us this far)
it proclaims who we are (it proclaims who we are),
and together we sing, "Let freedom ring,"
(Peo-ple ev'rywhere, let freedom ring; people ev'rywhere let freedom ring
People all o-ver the world let freedom ring
People ev'rywhere let freedom ring People ev'ry where,
let freedom ring; people ev'rywhere let freedom ring,
People all over the world let freedom ring
People ev'rywhere let freedom ring,
people ev'rywhere let freedom ring

Answers to the above questions:
1. the moon
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. The United States Constitution
4. The Declaration of Independence
5. The Statue of Liberty
6. The Bald Eagle
7. 11 states – North Carolina joined later that year and Rhode Island followed in 1790
8. The Bill of Rights
9. Executive, Legislative, Judicial
10. (2)

“Yes, I Can!” Overnight Basketball Camps and Fall Basketball Clinics:
We are now reserving a limited amount of fall 2007 dates for the  “Yes, I Can!” Basketball Clinics.  We will come to your facility and conduct one of our acclaimed 1-Day Clinics.  Dates are reserved on a first come basis...(Sept. 15-16 Boston, MA)

To find out more about hosting “Yes, I Can!” at your facility this fall, contact Tom Hughes at tomhughes@motivationnmore.com.

There is still time to enroll in our Kansas overnight camp.  But hurry, the Kansas “Yes, I Can!” Camp begins this Sunday, July 8th. 

Kansas “Yes, I Can!”
Where: Ottawa University -- Ottawa, KS
When: July 8-12, 2007
Ages: Boys and Girls entering Grades 6-12
Cost: Residential Camper: $340
 Commuter Campers: $275
 Deposit: $160

Kansas Contacts: Co-Camp Directors
Wayne Smith (913) 390-9788
Email: wsmith@bluevalleyk12.org

Andy Carrier (785) 229-1065
Email: acarrier@ottawa.edu

Airport pick up of your child can be arranged for an additional fee.  Contact the Camp Director for details

Contact Tom at: tomhughes@motivationNmore.com

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