Community Quote by Shasta Nelson

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us…

— Tarana Burke

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

— Randy Frazee

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

— Henri Nouwen

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

— Paul Wellstone

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

— Cory Booker

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

— Peter Block

“Creating communities, transforming lives.”

— Profriends

“Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

— Jeremy Bentham

The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.

— Ernesto Sirolli

“Community is like a garden, it is an organic living thing; if it is neglected, it can overgrow with weeds and suffer decline. Communities…

— Cory Bernardi