Community Quotes · Page 135

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

— Daisaku Ikeda

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

— Zoe Quinn

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

— John O. Brennan

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But…

— J. C. Watts

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

— John Hall Wheelock

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

— John Zerzan

We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters

— Yitzhak Rabin

To me, the only way we'll see a collective change in this country is by listening to people who have experienced life…

— Stephanie Land

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded…

— George Washington

Since we've come to Charlotte, we very quickly realized that this is home. This community quickly embraced our family, so we put…

— Greg Olsen

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate…

— Jessica Lucas

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to…

— Jane D. Hull

I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I have strongly supported the right to keep and bear arms. I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding…

— Mike Pence

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in…

— Huey Newton

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open…

— Abraham Lincoln

Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found…

— Michael Eric Dyson

If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important…

— Larry Brilliant

I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in…

— Barack Obama

“I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people…

— David Sedaris

What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they…

— Kurt Hahn

Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were…

— America Ferrera

How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.'…

— Rafael Cruz

The black community has always been a fan of horror films, but in terms of the participants, they've been few and far…

— Tony Todd

Healthy children develop healthy communities, which in turn support a community's economic well-being.

— Tae Yoo

The Orioles drafted me. I did a lot for that community, I did a lot for the state, and they didn't show…

— Manny Machado

Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of…

— Pam Bondi

I've kind of always had this soft spot in my heart for the homeless community, mainly homeless kids who live on the…

— Ryan Bingham

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

— Mary Lou Retton

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

— Ani DiFranco

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

— Alan Cohen

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

— Greg Boyle

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

— Paula Poundstone

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own…

— Kofi Annan

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.

— Rakim

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own…

— Gavin Creel

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

— Walter Brueggemann

I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my…

— Zoey Tur