Collective Concern Quotes

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone else's. So we have to take seriously our concern for all of humanity. When we focus on our individuality, humanity inevitably suffers. And once humanity suffers, each one of us will also suffer.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.

The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one of us, including myself.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.