Strong Community Quotes

• People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

  Tom Vilsack

  Teamwork, Strong, Common Purpose

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• Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspiring, Strong, Helping Others

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• You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.

  Marco Rubio

  Strong, Community, Taught

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.

  Sandy Smith

  Strong, Communication, Community

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• Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

  Tom Vilsack

  Change, Strong, Thinking

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• Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Strong, Creativity

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• I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Believe, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Derrick Rose

  Strong, Believe, Differences

  "Nba Superstar Derrick Rose Donates $1 Million Dollars To After School Matters". www.nba.com. September 23, 2014.

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• A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Strong

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

  Bob Taft

  Senior, Dream, Strong

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• Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

  Rick Renzi

  Strong, Home, Community

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• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, America, Optimism

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• There's something really happening and really moving, and it's exciting and it makes me very optimistic because it is going to be the engine for how we really combat climate change. Which is strong communities.

  Josh Fox

  Strong, Moving, Optimistic

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and relevant knowledge - other directors, artists, crew talent, and smart and fun people in other fields.

  Liza Johnson

  Strong, Fun, Smart

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, Justice, Effort

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• Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Strong, Children, Lunch

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund - the nation's largest lobbying group for young people - talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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