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“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.”

“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.”

Years Made Two Country States Culture Politics Sports Community United United States Economic Enormous Our Country Contribution Barriers Exile Ideological Cuban Hardened Two Countries

Author:Barack Obama

“If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.”

People Ifs States Community United United States Promise Offers International Extremism Something Better Susceptible International Community False Promises

Author:Barack Obama

“If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.”

Ifs Needs Kind Government Community Organization International Russia Reach Out International Community Confirmation Patron Compliance Assad Monitoring

Author:Barack Obama

“Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”

“Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.”

Years Firsts Two Community College Willing Two Years Community College

Author:Barack Obama

“The importance of making sure that the sense of accountability when, in fact, law enforcement is involved in a deadly shooting is something that I think communities across the board are going to need to consider, we have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations so that everybody feels safer and our law enforcement officers feel, rather than being embattled, feel fully supported.”

“The people there, the community, the lessons that I learned -- they're all based right in this few square miles where we'll now be able to give something back and bring the world back home after this incredible journey.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.”

People Giving Sometimes Feelings Force Community Serving Gears

Author:Barack Obama

“What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”

Source: Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.”

People May Long Fighting Community Rights Civil Rights African American

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.”

World Giving Community Differences Church Missions Live Life Our Family Making A Difference Our World Our Community Competencies

Author:Kennon Callahan

“When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them”

Country Girl Community

Author:Michelle Obama

“Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.”

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Author:Max Carver

“I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.”

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Author:Ed Murray

“Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community, i might add if you ever come to the train station with me you'll notice I have great relationships with them because there's an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I'm not being solicitous. I'm being serious.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.”

Earth Turns Community Sustenance

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.”

Life Children Real Community Freedom Attitude Stronger Spread Protection Real Life Life Experience Fairness Marriage Equality Real Life Experiences

Author:Ken Mehlman

“The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.”

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Author:Angela Merkel

“The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.”

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Author:Mario Cuomo

“All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.”

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Book:Visionary Novels: Lilith, Phantastes

Source: Visionary Novels: Lilith, Phantastes

“I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.”

“It does make a broader point which is the fight against Islamist terror is not just one that we can wage by the police and border control. It needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognize they have a role to play, we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult.”

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Author:David Cameron

“This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.”

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Author:Riyad Mansour

“There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.”

Want Black Community Citizens Protected American Citizens Old Saying Black Community

Author:Benjamin Crump

“It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.”

People Wells Ideas Together Community Smart University Good Ideas Academic

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.”

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Author:Elijah Cummings

“At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.”

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Author:Eric Holder

“If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?”

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Author:Amir Taheri

“Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.”

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Author:Bernardino Leon

“The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.”

Political Process Community Accepting Threat International International Community

Author:Bernardino Leon

“The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement.”

Community Possibility Let Me International Agreement Cautious International Community Libya Ramadan

Author:Bernardino Leon

“Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.”

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Author:Charlie Kimball

“I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.”

“I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.”

Want Use Government Community Issues Cameras Federal Government Dynamics Dictating

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.”

Ifs Needs Should Community Gun Should Have African American

Author:Philip Smith

“ISIL presents a growing threat not only in Syria and Iraq, but throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and now in the United States as well. Terrorists and their enablers will continue to receive the unwavering attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community.”

“It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population.”

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Author:Thomas Mulcair

“It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.”

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Author:Sergey Lavrov

“It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.”

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Author:Ibrahim Hooper

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