Community Quotes - Page 24

• Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Presidential, Levels

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• There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

  David Riesman

  Hero, Class, Has Beens

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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• I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

  Pearl Cleage

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

  Pearl Cleage

  School, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage, abcnews.go.com.

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• Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Class, Black, Action

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• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  "The nights and days of Elizabeth Edwards" by Monica Langley, www.organicconsumers.org. July 21, 2007.

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• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

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• We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Spiritual, Country, Cities

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• I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Religious, Years

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.568

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• It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

  Prince Andrew

  Ideas, Political, Bankers

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

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• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  Andy Garcia

  Mean, Kids, Community Theatre

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• Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

  Kim Carnes

  Nashville, Creative, Atmosphere

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

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• In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

  Jonathan Larson

  World, Faces, Should

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

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• Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

  Chuck D

  Real, Rap, Roots

  "Return of the great rap rebel" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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• I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

  Bob Brown

  Democracy, Depth, Rooms

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

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• The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

  Howard Gardner

  People, Online, Young

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

  Carrot Top

  Giving, Important, World

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• I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

  Vincent Nichols

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide, warns Archbishop Nichols" by Jonathan Wynne-Jones, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 1, 2009.

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• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Happiness, Thinking, Community Living

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• Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

  Denis McDonough

  Sunday, Afternoon, Territory

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• People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

  Aloe Blacc

  Blood, People, Needs

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• The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

  Amanda Beard

  Swimming, Conservative, Clothings

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• My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

  Andre Braugher

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

  Anne Bancroft

  Done, Courageous, Excited

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