It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.


Change We Can Believe In (ed. Canongate Books, 2008) - ISBN: 9781847674548

Barack Obama Quotes

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose...

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose...

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose...

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose...