Building community Quote by Mikaela Loach

“At a basic level, community unites us to a purpose bigger than our own lives as individuals.”

— Randy Frazee

“Creating communities, transforming lives.”

— Profriends

“If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change.”

— Leslie Weisman

“If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and…

— Adam Kahane

“Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals.”

— Susan Scott

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual…

— Bell Hooks

The most powerful way we can live our lives is if we stick within the community. So when you come together as a community…

— Allison Mack

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part…

— Michael Marmot

“Change in ourselves equals change in our society.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,…

— Jerry Brown

“any community or family discussion, those who are the first to introduce concern for empathy feel powerless, and are trying to use the togetherness…

— Edwin H Friedman

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only…

— Dolores Huerta