Our Communities Quotes
116 quotes by 105 authors
-
God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to…
— Kathleen Blanco
-
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
— Tom Allen
-
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
— Hillary Clinton
-
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
— William J. Clinton
-
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and…
— Edward Kennedy
-
The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the…
— Alan Grayson
-
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity…
— Hillary Clinton
-
The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save…
— Kofi Annan
-
To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves…
— Ken Robinson
-
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover…
— Jack Kornfield
-
We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic…
— Marian Wright Edelman
-
To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on responsibility yourself. It's not enough…
— Jackie Huggins
-
When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting…
— Aron Ralston
-
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.
— Richard M. Daley
-
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
-
Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
-
I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching, as we know…
— Doug Pagitt
-
I believe that when we treat homosexual people as pariahs and push them outside our communities and churches; when we blame them for who they…
— Steve Chalke
-
The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London.…
— Llyr Huws Gruffydd
-
With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even…
— Sarah Susanka
Who Wrote These Our Communities Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 116 Our Communities Quotes, led by these top contributors: