“Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.” MeanDoeNationsFriendshipCommunityFamilyRelationshipBloodDescriptionOrganisationFamily FriendsBlood Relatives Author:Queen Elizabeth II
“Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.” Has BeensMadeGovernmentCommunityLossNumbersLibertyFourCuttingBloodFieldsSonCommunicationTwentiesIndependenceTradeUnionsSoldierPlentyInternalsDividedRestraintSectionsDissolutionDeluge Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.” PeopleWorldWisdomRealityPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryViolenceGenerationsBloodHuman NatureSpringHuman RightsIdeologyOddShedInsecureOppressorsArab SpringInsecure People Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.” KnowsLooksCertainFoundRealizingCommunityViewsBloodTvsTypeCriticalPoint Of ViewGenreNaiveDisappointing Author:Denis O'Hare
“I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.” PeopleMeanActionLanguageCommunityUnitedClassFateBloodSubjectsCommittedConnectedCollectivesSocialistMy ThoughtsThoughts And Actions Author:Adolf Hitler
“The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.” PeopleWayMeanDoeDoneGuyCommunityKnowingVirtueBloodStreetsMembersCommitmentDinnerStoresNeighborFleshGenuineBlockCompromiseShirtsFlesh And BloodGetting AlongNo Commitment Author:Clifford Stoll
“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” LongStoriesIndividualVoiceCommunityLinesBloodStyleCryBabySittingMedicineBonesWideBreadHipsKneesBreastsChairsTouchingPlasticLapSkirtsRobustClansLatinaLong LinesHungariansPocketbooksLatina Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?” ThinkingMeanProblemSpeakCommunityBloodCaliforniaAustraliaIdeologicalSpillingMuslim Community Author:Dalia Mogahed
“It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.” WayYearsBelieveMeanDoeHardReasonCommunityJusticeCitiesGoneBloodFrontsTearsHard WorkCrisisTablesCastsEightReformDepartmentAddressesSweatSessionMayorsSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Al Sharpton
“I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.” GivingCommunityBloodConditionsTrumpSouthShedOur CommunityBakersHarlemSweatshops Author:Van Jones
“On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.” PeopleCountryMatterHandsTogetherCommunityUnitedGriefRaceBloodNeighborTiesOur TimeSeptemberWoundedOur LoveSeptember 11EthnicityAmerican FamilySeptember 11thWhere We Came Author:Barack Obama
“Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.” WorldGivingLongHomeSpiritOpportunityCausesCommunityLinesBloodStandingTradeObviousNoblePentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterLong LinesAmerican SpiritNoble CausesGiving Blood Author:Joe Biden