Community Quote by Joshua Wong Download Open image “I'm convinced democracy will grow from the ground up, from the community.” — Joshua Wong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Democracy Ground Grow Will
I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process. — Maggie Hassan Copy Share Image
I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing,… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print… — Katherine Graham Copy Share Image
I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations,… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Historically, Hong Kong has served as an important bridge between China and the world. Our freedoms, stability and the rule of law have been… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
I hope Hong Kong isn't just named Hong Kong but it can still be the Hong Kong we desire. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
The education system of Hong Kong has often been slammed for marginalising a lot of people. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image