“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.” MenWellsKindPersonsLongHappensAmericaRememberYoungFallNextCommunitySleepSecretStruggleTeacherDependsYoung ManTonightWrestling Author:Barack Obama
“Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.” FallIndividualLanguageCommunityAnswersMembersRemainsDefinitionsSentencesGenuineMysteriousRealmsAbstractPhenomenonElectricityMysticalAdequateMiraculousSuitableUnfathomableOne Sentence Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
“In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.” WorldFallCommunityEventsSeasonsFarmsDiversePolishMagnitudeMoscowReverberation Book:Poland: A Novel Source: Poland: A Novel
“Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.” PeopleMenBigsFallCommunityWealthStruggleShareCapitalismFellowsVictimCompetitionAvailableEvery Man Book:Sixty stories Source: Sixty stories
“The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community. The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.” IfsHandsGovernmentFallIndividualCommunityResponsibilityGreaterAchieveSolutionsUltimateImportanceGuidanceVirtuousPromotingFamily Friends Author:Ron Paul
“No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.” KindDifferentAmericaFallThreePoliticsNationsCommunityJusticeDecisionViolenceFailingPolicyTenEthicsGunMurderEndureRateIdeologyInevitableForeign PolicyThree TimesDecisions We MakeDeveloped Nations Author:Barack Obama
“Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.” IfsPersonsWarHelpingFallNextGivenCommunityGet UpFalling DownCuba Author:Assata Shakur