We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.
What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody
What happens on that corner happens on every corner.
Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.
A problem shared is a problem doubled.
Why don’t you lift the end?” said Alf. “It’s me back, Alf,” complained Mack. “You know how it troubles me.” “No more than mine troubles me,” said Alf. “But I said it first,” said Mack.
I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
