Laurie David Quotes

We all have to do our part, because we are all in this together and it matters.

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

I've had people ask, 'Oh, do you feel like you're spearheading a movement?' And I don't. I feel that it's not just my responsibility to spearhead a whole movement, I feel like it's everyone's responsibility. If we want to see a change, we can't just put it on a couple people.

If we attack, we all attack.

This is a team sport.

If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.

Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."