Community Quotes

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

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

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to our community's welfare.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

I'm a reflection of the community.

Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've controlled these communities for up to 100 years.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

We Poles are and will remain convinced Europeans. For us, Europe is a community of the diversity of nations. No mishmash.

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.