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am a part of all that I have met.
-- Lord Tennyson
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| "Heroes
are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This
is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all
these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again.
I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'."
-- Studs Terkel
| “Community
cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others
from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.”
-- Howard Thurman
(American Theologian, 1900-1981)
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You shouldn't get to live
in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they
do nothing for the community.
-- Kathleen
Turner |
The universal brotherhood
of man is our most precious possession.
-- Mark
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“What
should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the
most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease
of loneliness can be cured.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (American writer, b.1922)
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"Teaching kids how to feed
themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education."
-- Alice Waters
"I
believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to
know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community
around them."
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Alice Waters |
| The love of our
neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going
through?"
-- Simone Weil
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As
free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested
and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the
global level.
-- Paul
Wellstone
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"There
is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
-- Margaret J. Wheatley
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A man
is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
-- Richard Whately
This is the duty of
our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak,
the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by
the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all
members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
-- Elie Wiesel
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I
still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams Despair
shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration,
collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
~
Terry Tempest Williams
We have to speak
out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the
same thing and say "No, we are not rolling over" and "No, this is not a corporate
enterprise." This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and
reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams |
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In
every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to
heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
-- Marianne
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"There
must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries,
but an organized peace.
-- Woodrow Wilson
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One
of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other
human beings as we take our place among them.
-- Virginia Woolf
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“When
I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential
and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that
comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also
expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building
a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained
by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise
and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”
-- Lily
Yeh |
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