Community Quotes

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I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. -- Marian Wright Edelman * The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. -- Marian Wright Edelman

"I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so." -- Tewolde Egziabher

"With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community." -- Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security
-- Albert Einstein

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
-- George Eliot

We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority -- Irene Fernandez

...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work...We’re all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can. -- Ralph Fiennes

“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.” -- Millard Fuller

Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups. -- Eduardo Galeano

"We have an obligation to ensure that donors do not become isolated from the needs of the public and the community." -- Tracy Gary

"Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience." ~ Lois Gibbs

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice … you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.” -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg ..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. -- Vaclav Havel

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

* We can dream together a dream of a better world, an ever-renewing, organic-based earth-community. I believe we can achieve a large part of it in our lifetime. ~ Randy Hayes

“Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.” -- Dorothy Height

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. -- Hubert Humphrey

“A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.” -- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
-- Henrik Ibsen

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring." -- Wes Jackson

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
-- Lady Bird Johnson

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community. -- Barbara Jordan We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. -- Barbara Jordan

 

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