Quotes About Community

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

In elementary school, I identified more with my Asian side. I had a lot of Korean friends, and then, once middle school hit, it was a little more diverse.

I come from a very middle-class family.

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

Communities do not benefit from criminals in their midst.

I'm proud to come from the Midwest and that's where I'm comfortable at.

There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I'm from the Midwest.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

I think a lot of gay kids in the midwest or in places not in New York have to overachieve in order to sort of get through the fear of what they're going through.

We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.

Kansans are resilient. We look out for one another - it's part of our Midwestern DNA.

We faced police dogs when we fought for justice for Mike Brown in Ferguson in 2014.

Since taking office, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have governed the exact same way they campaigned, which is with bigotry and with bluster, and that includes toward the LGBTQ community.