Community Quotes

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

  Ernesto Sirolli

  Lying, Passion, People

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• For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

  Millard Fuller

  People, Healthy, Homecoming

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.

  Jean Vanier

  Healing, Responsibility, Self Confidence

  "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Way, Helping

  "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

  Malcolm X

  Wellness, Togetherness, Illness

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• There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Care, Discovering, Interconnection

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Commitment, Tuesdays With Morrie

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Aug 03, 2010

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, World, Species

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, People, Tugging

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Community Living

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• I'm a reflection of the community.

  Tupac Shakur

  Reflection, Rapper

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Learning, Leaving

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Peace, Risk

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  I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

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• Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

  Starhawk

  Strength, Healing, Mean

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Fire, Scope, Compassionate

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