Daniel Kemmis Quotes

United States, Author
1946

Daniel Kemmis is an American attorney and the author of several books. He was born and raised on a farm in eastern Montana. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Montana School of Law. He has formerly served as mayor of Missoula, Montana (1990–1996), speaker and minority leader of the Montana House of Representatives (1983–1985) and director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana.

Also known as Attorney At Law

A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.

Daniel Kemmis
- River
- Rights
- Montana
What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

Daniel Kemmis
- People
- Power
- Citizens

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

Daniel Kemmis
- World
- Common
- Willing