Community Quotes · Page 118

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want…

— Abbie Hoffman

“I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like”

— Malebo Sephodi

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

— Matt Salmon

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

— Charlaine Harris

I feel so fortunate I was able to grow up in such a warm, loving, safe, beautiful community that I still call…

— Lari White

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

— Betsy Hodges

The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

— Jenny McCarthy

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

— Raven-Symone

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any…

— Michelle Alexander

Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't…

— Lesley Sharp

Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding…

— Lewis Mumford

“For introverts, the best associations start with ideas. If you don’t feel a part of your neighborhood association or the happy hour…

— Laurie Helgoe

“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Robert Mugabe is not representative of who we are, what we stand for, or how we want to be viewed by the…

— Roy Bennett

'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in…

— Kurt Sutter

I hope that we will also take seriously the necessity of building alternative parties, and do that work in our communities of…

— Michelle Alexander

I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black…

— Diahann Carroll

While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many…

— T.I

I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what…

— Murray Bookchin

The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural…

— Vaclav Havel

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill…

— Bernard Beckett

What is it I see in the future? well I see so many things I see a world of peace where everyone…

— Emma Swenson

When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of…

— Asra Nomani

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal…

— Nelson Mandela

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

— Elijah Cummings

Middle America conservative community... I was not around any gay people, especially not gay women.

— Gabby Windey

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

— Jenna Wortham

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

— Thomas Berry

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

— David Klinghoffer

I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

— Amy Ray

When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

— Joshua Bloch

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

— Pope Francis

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation

— Tony Benn

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

— Jerry Bridges

“My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. (House of Changes)”

— Jeni Couzyn

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

— Ben Stein

Pennsylvanians in every community and of every background deserve more freedom to chart their own course and more opportunity to succeed.

— Josh Shapiro

“Wealth without real worthiness Is no good for the neighbourhood; But their proper mixture Is the summit of beatitude.”

— Sappho

It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and…

— Daniel Dae Kim