Affirmation Quote by Bell Hooks

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but…

— Henri Nouwen

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

— Bell Hooks

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

— Bell Hooks

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences…

— Wayne Teasdale

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Belovedness is the center of being, the only real identity,”

— Ann Voskamp

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share…

— Frederick Douglass

“A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going…

— Jean Vanier

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it…

— Dar Williams

Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name…

— Brennan Manning

“Community as openness . . . Communities are truly communities when they open to others, when they remain vulnerable and humble; when the members…

— Jean Vanier