“I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.” ForceCommunityExampleMembersResistanceLatinoDixieFiesta Author:Richard Benjamin
“With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.” PeopleThinkingDemocracyGrowingEqualMembersPopulationMinoritiesCollectivesCan NotIntegrated Author:Richard Benjamin