“Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.” CountryStatesAmericaNextCommunityUnitedUnited StatesOrganizationLet MeMeetingsAgendasTransitionUnited States Of AmericaPresidencyInput Author:Barack Obama
“When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.” Has BeensCountryMightSchoolCollegeOrganizationAbsolutesPopulationAcceptedNewspapersAdsHolocaustOffensiveOutrageCampusCollege Campus Author:Simon Sinek
“I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.” WellsCountryHelpingEarthFoundOrganizationOther CountriesHere And ThereInstitute Author:David R. Brower
“I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.” NeedsShouldDoeCountryHomeOrganizationCleverSavingMissionarySchemesPacksSuggestingHaiti Author:Tony Campolo
“It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.” PeopleCountryGoalBlackCommunityOrganizationHeritageBlack People Author:Stokely Carmichael
“Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.” WorldTryingCountryStatesHelpingUnitedUnited StatesAreasOrganizationTradeInvestmentClimateCanadaNegotiationHemisphereWorld TradeWorld Trade OrganizationCanada And The United States Author:Paul Cellucci
“Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.” EndsCountryHelpingCommunityWealthSupportShareChildhoodResourcesProgramOrganizationStrongerPreparedHungerHungryLocalsOur CountryAbundanceExcessCommodityFood Banks Author:John Travolta
“As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayWantCountryWaitingIssuesPolicyOrganizationRatePopulationPracticalsImmigrationRacistFrightenedAvoidingReducingImmigration Policy Author:Gaylord Nelson
“Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.” WarCountryAbleHateSocialPeaceProduceRevolutionPeriodsOrganizationCastsRuinsDisorderAnti WarAntiwarBloodyProvokingSocial Organization Author:Georges Sorel
“I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.” ImportantCountryActionCommunityResponsibilityEconomyCommunicationOrganizationResponsibleStartingFavorsDialogueCooperationIntegrating Author:David Korten
“I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindCountryTodayPoliticalSocialGroupsMovementCommitmentOrganizationMedicalMarijuanaEnergeticSocial MovementsMedical Marijuana Author:John Trudell
“In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.” WorldChildrenCountryStoriesMightSchoolTurnsNationsUnitedMillionsOrganizationThirdsProfitUnited NationsIncentivesStarvingThird WorldProgrammesWorld HungerNon ProfitThird World CountriesUnescoHunger For Food Author:Sheryl Crow
“I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.” PeopleCountryWholePoliticalFightingSocialCommunityPracticeDangerousPlanetsSeriousBirthActivityOrganizationCatholicThreatVariousObstaclesPositive AtheismConvincedGravesCatholicismOrganizeBirth ControlDetrimentalOverpopulation Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.” IfsLooksMadeSelfCountryGovernmentAmericaHumanityCoursesIndividualNationsPayResponsibilityPrinciplesTheoryCivilizationStandardsOrganizationMethodBillsWesternLocalsVagueCan NotSelf-governmentIndividual Responsibility Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization, including government, will fully succeed without the active participation of each of us. Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to live up to the true promise of its heritage” ImportantCountryPlayGovernmentChallengesRolesPromiseSucceedOrganizationMeetingsIncludingActiveHeritageVolunteerParticipationEnablingVolunteerismActive Participation Author:William J. Clinton
“Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.” CountryWonderGrowingAirLandOrganizationBreathsEnvironmentalThanksFresh Air Author:Wallace Stegner
“The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.” IfsMadeCountryStatesHomeNationsDecisionAnimalUnitedUnited StatesDegreesOrganizationStriveLocalsAdoptionHumaneHumane Society Author:Wayne Pacelle