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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 03:23 PM
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Where have I heard this before?
The public, far from yearning for a return to Reaganism, is looking for a return to community and country, to a time when every citizen mattered.
-- Stanley Greenberg, NY Times: Fly High Above the Battlefield

I recall this politician say something about restoring our community quite often.
...Today, our nation is in crisis. At home, this crisis manifests itself in this President's destruction of the idea of community. This President pushes forward an agenda and policies which divide us. He advocates economic polices which beggar the middle class and raise property taxes so that income taxes may be cut for those who ran Enron.

He divides us by race by using the word quota, which appeals to the worst in us by instilling fear that people of color might take our jobs or our places in the nation's best universities. Even the most conservative Supreme Court since the Dred Scott decision did not completely agree with the President's attack on diversity and community that includes all Americans...

This campaign is about more than issue differences on health care, tax cuts, national security, jobs, the environment and our economy. It is about something as important as our children. It's about who we are as Americans.

Here are the words of John Winthrop: "We shall be as one. We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always living before our eyes our Commission and Community in our work."

It is that ideal, the ideal of the American community, that we seek to restore.

An America where it is not enough for me to want health care for my family but the obligation, and responsibility of every one of us as American citizens to insure that each one of us has health care for our families.

An America where it is not enough for me to want good public schools and a better life for my children but an obligation, and a responsibility as citizens to insure that every child in America may go to a good public school and have the opportunity of a better life.

An America where it is not enough to protect my rights under the law but where it is a duty and an obligation for each of us as Americans to make sure every American is equal under the law.

An America where it is not enough to proclaim the words freedom, self-government, and democracy, but where it is a duty and a responsibility to participate together in common purpose with the sacrifice required of each of us to give those words meaning...
-- Gov. Howard Dean, June 23, 2003, The Great American Restoration

I also liked this quote
People in high places make me really angry—the way corporations now are behaving, the way the United States government is behaving. What makes me angry is that they are so callous, really callous. ... When you see uncaring people in high places, everybody should be mad as hell.
-- William Sloane Coffin
So we were justified to be angry.

Got these quotes from Working For Change Quote page
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14750
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