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Quotes About Community

Fifty-four-year-old Tom Green is a fat, bearded man with a receding hairline, thirty-two children, and five wives
~ Jon Krakauer
la felicidad sólo es real cuando es compartida.» Es
~ Jon Krakauer
Laughter is always something that is a shared experience
~ Jon Krakauer
Happiness only real when shared
~ Jon Krakauer
We understand that honor, truth and hard work win in the end. We are Montana.
~ Jon Krakauer
T]his is a bad thing that's going on," she told Moore, "and we all need to do something to try to fix it." On
~ Jon Krakauer
finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans….
~ Jon Krakauer
Despite the fact that Uncle Rulon and his followers regard the governments of Arizona, Utah, and the United States as Satanic forces out to destroy the UEP, their polygamous community receives more than $6 million a year in public funds.
~ Jon Krakauer
There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don't even know my next-door neighbor's name.
~ Jon McGregor
Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention.1 Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. —THOMAS JEFFERSON
~ Jon Meacham
In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house—not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America
~ Jon Meacham
You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.
~ Jon Meacham
all those who conduct themselves worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government.
~ Jon Meacham
The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong.
~ Jon Meacham
The genius of America lies in its capacity to forge a single nation from peoples of remarkably diverse racial, religious, and ethnic origins….The American Creed envisages a nation composed of individuals making their own choices and accountable to themselves, not a nation based on inviolable ethnic communities….
~ Jon Meacham
Progress in America does not usually begin at the top and among the few, but from the bottom and among the many.
~ Jon Meacham
In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house—not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America," Lewis said. "We can move ahead, we can move forward, we can create a multiracial community, a truly democratic society. I think we're on our way there. There may be some setbacks. But we are going to get there. We have to be hopeful. Never give up, never give in, keep moving on.
~ Jon Meacham
In his closing remarks, King spoke from a mountaintop, a prophet bringing word from on high. Lewis spoke more simply, from the valley, among the people whose burdens he knew because they were his burdens too.
~ Jon Meacham
The message of the civil rights movement was straightforward, and it was a message grounded in hope: We are one people; we are one family; we all live in the same house—the American house, the world house.
~ Jon Meacham
Lincoln said that he believed "the legitimate object of government is 'to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.'
~ Jon Meacham
We were then, and are now, what Jackson called "one great family.
~ Jon Meacham
be together when it's
~ Jon Meacham
Tuesday, October 6, 1925, Coolidge was broad-gauged. "Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of to-day is real and genuine," Coolidge said. "No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
~ Jon Meacham
There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans—not as Democrats or Republicans—we are
~ Jon Meacham