Sandy Hook Quotes:

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, School, Mean, Right To Vote, Sandy Hook

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

- Chris Murphy

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Meaningful, Hook, Legislation, Sandy, Sandy Hook

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

topic: Gun, Thinking, Parent, Sandy, Sandy Hook

I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,--and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1230, e-artnow

topic: Men, Islands, Dust, Walden Pond, Sandy Hook

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

- Chris Murphy

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Careers, Hook, Stories, Sandy, Sandy Hook