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Americans Love Community

==** “I must say that I have often seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and I have remarked a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to each other. The free institutions which the inhabitants of the United States possess, and the political rights of which they make so much use, remind every citizen, and in a thousand ways, that he lives in society.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 626 **==

== “They every instant impress upon his mind the notion that it is the duty, as well as the interest of men, to make themselves useful to their fellow-creatures; and as he sees no particular ground of animosity to them, since he is never either their master or their slave, his heart readily leans to the side of kindness.” Alexis de Tocqueville, pp. 626-627 ==

==  The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms,  ==


==  inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck  ==  ==  == == == == When you look at your life, the greatest ==


==happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers ==

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== “The night draws down. The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. It’s wool. It was my mother’s blanket—take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from ‘I’ to ‘we’” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 152 ==

== **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(153, 21, 21); text-align: left; display: block">“Tommy, don’t you go fightin’ ‘em alone. They’ll hunt you down like a coyote. Tommy, I got to thinkin’ an’ dreamin’ an’ wonderin’. They say there’s a hun’erd thousand of us shoved out. If we was all mad the same way, Tommy—they wouldn’t hunt nobody down” She stopped. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 77 ** ==

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