This edition of Tocqueville's America: The Great Quotations was presented to the volunteer leaders of the 1994 Campaign of the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast, in recognition of their exemplary service to the community, by Robert Cizik, Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Cooper Industries, Campaign Chairman.

Hardcover: 124 pages
Publisher: Cooper Industries
Published: 1983
Genre: Nonfiction > Social Sciences
Condition: Excellent (images are of actual book with dust jacket, which shows minor wear)

A Compassion for the Sufferings of Others

"When men feel a natural compassion for the sufferings of one another, when they are brought together by easy and frequent intercourse, and no sensitive feelings keep them assunder, it may readily be supposed that they will lend assistance to one another whenever it is needed. When an American asks for the co-operation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused, and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously, and with great goodwill. If an accident happens on the highway, everybody hastens to help the sufferer; if some great and sudden calamity befalls a family, the purses of a thousand strangers are at once willingly opened and small but numerous donations pour in to relive their distress." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

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