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To enable consensus
politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving
financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the
greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people
feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their
own lives and communities.
-- Mairead
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Every
society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought
to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
-- George
Mason |
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“We
need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community
around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet’s survival.
Compassion must be translated into action.”
-- Natasha
Mayers | 
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Community
is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating
around it enables people to have no need of each other.
-- Bill McKibben |
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Never
doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret
Mead | 
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We
cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
-- Herman Melville
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want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept
of participation, community work and honesty...
-- Evo
Morales |
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the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to
the political community is not a human life any longer.
-- Martha Nussbaum
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"If
poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment
and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those
symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community."
-- Barack
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"Leave the old and dying
America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would
be demilitarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer
to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation
of the people, and mostly because it's now a matter of life and death, reassert
an ecological balance with the environment, which means the people in the oil
companies and the car companies and the space industry will have to be brought
into account, so there will be a new definition of government which has to be
closer to the people and less close to special interests which are far more harmful
that any revolutionaries.
-- Phil
Ochs | We
don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the
result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual
threads from one to another that creates something.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
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are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the
goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident
that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby
be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better
use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts
of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the
course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political,
and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence.
-- Linus
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There
can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability;
there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
-- M.
Scott Peck "It
is our task—our essential, central, crucial task—to transform ourselves from mere
social creatures into community creatures."
-- M.
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Living
together is an art.
-- William Pickens
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a welcoming community for people who are left out in our society. We help people
heal and become who God is calling them to be."
-- Sister
Lucy Poulin |  |
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"A
community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the
highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful
possess."
-- A. Philip
Randolph |
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"I
want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I
want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in."
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Anita Roddick |
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The
strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only
a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's
own limitations.
-- Aruna Roy |
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In every country, we
should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill
of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In
the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be
all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl
Sagan
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you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to
share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose
in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is
harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy
of growth.
-- Mitsugi Saotome
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At a time when everything
seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so
much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to
even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers
to try to put out a hand.
-- Susan
Sarandon | Isn't
everyone a part of everyone else?
-- Budd Schulberg,
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"I
am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live
it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."
-- George
Bernard Shaw "Independence"...
middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us
on earth.
-- George Bernard
Shaw | 
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I'm
not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and
I want to help people see their community in each other.
-- Russell Simmons
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Decent
work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for
the family and peace in the community
-- Juan
Somavia | 
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Community
means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms
to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace
where we can be free.
-- Starhawk |
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“A
healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community
finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is
living”
-- Rudolf
Steiner “In
a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community
will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of
the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to
his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of
his own work done, but out of work done by the others.”
-- Rudolf
Steiner |
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On
this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
-- Adlai
Stevenson |
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