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“The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.”

Firsts Children Community Sacrifice Materials Standards Our Children Amendments Protected Altars First Amendment Obscene

Author:Orrin Hatch

“Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.”

People Father Community Rights Protect Bills Determine Founding Our Community Our Founding Fathers Bill Of Rights

Author:Mike Quigley

“The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.”

World Has Beens War Home Community Iraq Divided

Author:Adam Schiff

“Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.”

Persons Faces Black Community Successful Loyalty Suspicion Black Person

Author:Randall Kennedy

“Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.”

World Community Focus Generations Humility Citizens Approach Empathy Everyday Committed Better Place Kate Ambassadors Global Citizen Refreshing Positive Change Humility And Patience

Author:Ann Veneman

“I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.”

Thinking Way Country Life Is Community Ability Imagine Holes Climbs Better Life Better Ways

Author:Deval Patrick

“We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.”

Needs Ends Community Successful Bigger Bridges Immigrants Lgbt Tents Lgbt Community

Author:Luis Gutierrez

“Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.”

“My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.”

World Use Together America Interest Community Challenges Military Changed Citizens Protect Tools Threat International Strongest Worldview International Community American Power

Author:Chuck Hagel

“The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered”

World Use Problem Today Able Community Serious Locals Behalf World Today Full Potential Local Community World Bank

Author:Jenny Shipley

“Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“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.”

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.”

Jobs Community Technology Forever Our Lives Changed Communication Industry Contribution Visionaries Telecom

Author:Steve Largent

“The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities.”

People Ideas Strong Community Environment Talent Innovation Backgrounds Diverse Nurture Work Environment Strong Relationship

Author:Mark Parker

“Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.”

Hard States School Law Can Do Community Air Car Hard Work Islands Bus Engines Pollution Our Community Diesel Air Pollution Rhode Island School Bus Pollution Control

Author:Sheldon Whitehouse

“I love the concept of community energy.”

Energy Community Concepts

Author:Ed Rendell

“The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.”

Moving Community Advantage Institutions Department Hospitals Pakistan Emergencies

Author:Mark Shields

“One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.”

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.”

People Use Community Share Primaries

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on and so on, then we'll look at this thing [HIV/AIDS] for what it really is. It's a disease that's out to kill all of us. What will make it continue is our prejudices, our ideas about it, and the fact that we don't look at ourselves as one giant community.”

Humans Looks Ideas Facts Community Race Disease Prejudice Aids Human Race Giants Hiv Hiv Aids

Author:Queen Latifah

“Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.”

Wells May Doe Helping Able Community Talking Land Depends Circumstances Areas Tools Relation Species Urban Flexible Ecological Urban Areas

Author:Frank Sartor

“As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.”

Kind Kids Community Acting Fans Huge Mom Involved Ordinary Theater My Mom Massive Hung Cheeky

Author:Simon Pegg

“When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.”

Trying Littles Real Actors Community Stage Figures Scene Theater Do The Best

Author:Kurt Fuller

“That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?”

People Want Littles Happens Earth Nations Sides Community Lines Perspective Battle Sand Cosmic Specks Lines In The Sand

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.”

People Thinking Men Way Art America Community Wife Middle Changed He Man Internet Exposed Open Minded Middle America

Author:John Waters

“I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture at the moment, that will change everything. And it's only just beginning.”

Has Beens Culture Community Technology Revolution Emerging

Author:Alex Winter

“Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.”

Self Together Black Community Music Is Fundamentals Cement Black Community

Author:Cornel West

“I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.”

Has Beens Art Stills School Community Study Growing College High School My Friends Built Ideals Feminist

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.”

Community Crazy Huge Drug Hollywood Alcohol Sober Misconception Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Tom Arnold

“So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.”

People Men Way Different Three Black Community Break Taken Strikes One Way Sections Breaking Down Our Community Representing Three Strikes

Author:Snoop Dogg

“People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?”

People Strong Community Religious Support Senses Mutual Mutual Support

Author:Bill Nye

“No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.”

Matter Community My Own Chinese

Author:Anchee Min

“Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”

Ends Community Struggle Creation Elements Ultimate Meaningful Resistance Beloved Nonviolence Reconciliation Beloved Community

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.”

Should Believe Community Awareness Ready Constant Inspired Tales Recognizing Criteria Fallibility

Book:Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

Source: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

“I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.”

Way Giving Mother Desire Community Numbers Wife Glory Significant Serving Glory Of God Congregation Single Women

Author:Ligon Duncan

“The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.”

“We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.”

Giving Community Obligation

Author:Ray Kroc

“The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.”

Years Enough Dream Community Support College Threshold Community College Dream Act

Author:Michael Baumgartner

“God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.”

Children Helping Jobs Next Community Generations Preparing Next Generation Raising Children

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.”

Kids Community Answers Gun Our Community

Author:James Langevin

“In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.”

Self Reason Three Community Views Arms Bears Constitution Protection Right To Bear Arms Self Protection

Book:Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

Source: Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

“Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.”

Community Church Drink Areas Roots Trade Wine Magazines Journalist Code Neighborhood Makers Volunteer Maids Residents Zips Espresso Volunteer Work

Author:John Leo

“We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.”

Pain Community Arms

Author:John M. Perkins

“Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.”

Jobs Lost Community Down And Upside Down

Author:Philipp Meyer

“Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.”

People Law Community Decision Constitution Discussing

Author:Julian Assange

“Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.”

Way Needs Mean Community Our Lives Members Productive Providing Veteran Civilians Our Veterans

Author:Charles Rangel

“America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.”

America Community Ready Speed Rail High Speed High Speed Rail

Author:Greg Abbott

“Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.”

Firsts Two Community Policy Materials Activity Standards Determination Contemporary Factors Mediums Organs Offensive Hinges Fcc

Author:Doug Ose

“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.”

Self Social Community Memories Practice Modern Information Concern Obvious Available Traditional Orthodox Holocaust Preservation Continuity Self Preservation Membership

Author:Noah Feldman

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