Community Quotes · Page 141

I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

— Chance The Rapper

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

— Martin Schulz

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

— Rodney Mullen

“(A) society of disconnected individuals without responsibility for one another isn't a society at all.”

— Melissa McEwan

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

— Stephen Gardiner

“Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.”

— Bryant McGill

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.

— Hillary Clinton

I'm going to do everything I can to restore trust and build back those bonds between the police and communities.

— Hillary Clinton

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this…

— Jonas Gahr Store

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to…

— Bell Hooks

I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don't want to…

— Russell Simmons

The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out…

— Damon Lindelof

A'ja allowed me to be a part of her open book. Honestly, I didn't know the depths of where she could go.…

— Dawn Staley

“The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's…

— Henry R. Van Til

“The idea of the family as a protective haven is a myth, the family unit cannot provide the haven it promises. On…

— Nicola Field

If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to…

— John Wanamaker

You're not patriotic just because you back whoever's in power today or their policies. You're patriotic when you work to improve the…

— Edward Snowden

I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation…

— David Von Drehle

Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department…

— Eboo Patel

I'm grateful to see my work flourish in my lifetime. Many of the great people in our history were not able to…

— Maulana Karenga

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

— Richard Stallman

“We’re on a journey to a heavenly home, and we need all the help we can get. Societies”

— Charles J. Chaput

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

— Joe Biden

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part…

— Oliver Sacks

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

— Jonathan Sacks

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

— Grace Lee Boggs

“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”

— Ken Breniman

“If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

— Maria Cantwell

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my…

— Malala Yousafzai

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

— Nelson Mandela

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

— Gabrielle Union

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by…

— Rick Warren

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

— Chris Rock