The American Idea by Lawrence https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1 Please post your American Idea Quote here- Include your name in the heading! en-us 2018-10-23 11:40:07 UTC 2018-10-25 18:04:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png Mr. Kunze lkunze1_1 https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295874551 "A government is good when those near are happy and those far off are attracted"
-Confucius]]> 2018-10-23 11:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295874551 Jackson Novak https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295879701 I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan]]> 2018-10-23 11:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295879701 Jamie Sanchez https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295880222 "The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its doors wide open to children of all races and every creed "
- Henry Cabot Lodge]]> 2018-10-23 11:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295880222 Will william_lyman https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295881168 We shall overcome.  
-Charles Albert Tindley 1900; Pete Seeger, 1947

]]> 2018-10-23 12:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295881168 Danielle barker danielle_barker1 https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295881385 "As the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives,that that nation might live"

-The Gettysburg Address]]> 2018-10-23 12:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295881385 Anayah Sofia Hidalgo anayahsofia_hidalgo https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295881732 "Today thus represents a moment of hope. We in the West stand ready to cooperate with the East to promote true openness, to break down barriers that separate people, to create a safe, freer world." -  Ronald Reagan]]> 2018-10-23 12:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295881732 Fijona Osmanaj https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882106 "Intellectually, I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country"
 -Sinclair Lewis, 1930

]]> 2018-10-23 12:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882106 Tommy Straub https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882668 "If your not ready to die for it, put the word 'Freedom' out of your vocabulary."
- Malcom X]]> 2018-10-23 12:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882668 Madisyn https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882748 "The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance" henry ward beecher]]> 2018-10-23 12:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882748 Jadalyn jadalyn_murphy https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882862 " I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise
up, live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." -MLK]]> 2018-10-23 12:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295882862 Alexander Colavecchio. https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295883169 "one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
of their skin but by the content of their character."
-Martin Luther King Jr.  ]]> 2018-10-23 12:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295883169 Brandan Rosado brandan_rosado https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295884002 "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham lincoln ]]> 2018-10-23 12:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295884002 Josef Wacaser https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295884896 "Speak softly and carry a big stick" -Theodore Roosevelt]]> 2018-10-23 12:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295884896 Nicholas Felix https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885003 "We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately--but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle." -FDR, 1933]]> 2018-10-23 12:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885003 Jayna Kahn jayna_kahn https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885084  
“This job… We try to save as many people as we can. Sometimes that doesn’t mean everybody, but, if we can’t find a way to live with that, next time… maybe nobody can be saved” 
-Steve Rogers (Captain America: Civil War)
]]> 2018-10-23 12:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885084 Jayna Kahn jayna_kahn https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885269  “I know we’re not perfect, but the safest hands are still our own.” 
-Captain America (Captain America: Civil War) 
]]> 2018-10-23 12:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885269 Avery DeMaio avery_demaio https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885731 "We will be able to speed up that day when all
of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and
Gentiles, Protestants, and Catholics, will be able to join
hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
"Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, "We are
free at last." 
-Martin Luther King Jr.]]> 2018-10-23 12:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885731 Alessandra Granieri https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885864 "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

]]> 2018-10-23 12:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885864 David Estremera https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885910 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. -President FDR 1945]]> 2018-10-23 12:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295885910 Jordan Cuddy https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295886186 "And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." - Farewell Address, President Ronald Reagan, 1989 (“shining city” “city upon a hill”)]]> 2018-10-23 12:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295886186 Natalie Mazza https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295886669 "My conception of America is a land where men and women may walk in ordered freedom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may enjoy the advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the hands of the few but spread through the lives of all; where they build and safeguard their homes, and give to their children the fullest advantages and opportunities of American life; where every man shall be respected in the faith that his conscience and his heart direct him to follow; where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have the leisure and impulse to seek a fuller life."
- Herbert Hoover]]> 2018-10-23 12:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295886669 Kelby Dath kelby_dath https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295888162 I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
- Jaden Smith]]> 2018-10-23 12:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lkunze1_1/Period1/wish/295888162