Community Quotes · Page 75

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New…

— Jimmy Graham

We're trying to humanize the trans community. It's about showing us as normal, everyday human beings who just happen to be trans.

— Dominique Jackson

“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".”

— John Steinbeck

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local…

— Peter Buffett

I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS…

— Chris Grayling

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Both the national security establishment and the high-tech community are interested in working overtime to contain China.

— John Mearsheimer

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

— John Hodgman

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope…

— Alex Ebert

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of…

— Orson Scott Card

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes,…

— Ronald Reagan

I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did…

— Lupita Nyong'o

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still…

— Cornel West

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

— Ban Ki-moon

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also,…

— August Wilson

Community schools, mental health access, enough reading teachers, enough professional staff, a competitive salary. Those are the things that keep schools going.

— Miguel Cardona

If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood.…

— Malcolm X

“We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else's…

— Anonymous

The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net…

— Thomas Kuhn

We must build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination. ... policies must be developed, attitudes must be shaped, and…

— Barack Obama

Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence…

— Danny Glover

Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We can always create enough of our own local money to handle all the trades and exchanges we wish to make. While…

— John Rogers

This year, 1.7 million young people will be participating in Olympic and Paralympic sports in their communities-many of them for the very…

— Michelle Obama

“For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.”

— Sharon Salzberg

I love to get involved with the community by doing programs that promote literacy and education.

— Harrison Barnes

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get…

— Theo Paphitis

Cleveland is a really awesome community. There's some great people here.

— Larry Nance, Jr

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world…

— Anonymous

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

— Andrew Carnegie

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

— James Gosling

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

— Graham Taylor

“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.”

— Mary Gordon

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

“When we give more kindness and love than we receive, we can connect with anyone, anywhere, and truly become part of any…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the…

— Robert Greenwald

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and…

— Ravyn Lenae

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

— Anonymous

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

— Dorothy Day

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous