Community Quotes - Page 27

• A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

  Robert Reed

  Entrepreneur, Working Together, Groups

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

  Tom Harkin

  Hero, Together, Students

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• 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.

  Donna Brazile

  Jesus, People, Roles

  "Millions Insulted by Liberals' Use of Jesus Christ/Pontius Pilate Line". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 12, 2008.

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• I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leader, Looks

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• I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

  Lana Del Rey

  Falling In Love, Class, People

  "Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. January 29, 2012.

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• The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, Cities, People

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• An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others

  Pope Francis

  Distance, Bridges, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.12, BookBaby

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• May this colloquium be an inspiration to all who seek to support and strengthen the union of man and woman in marriage as a unique, natural, fundamental and beautiful good for persons, families, communities, and whole societies.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Unique

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• Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Blood, White, Black

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• Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

  Ron Kind

  Believe, Cells, Numbers

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• Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Responsibility, Men, Meditation

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• A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Men, Wells

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

  Marc Benioff

  Philosophy, Successful, Winning

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

  Somaly Mam

  Action, Power Of One, Can Do

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• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

  Elyn Saks

  Numbers, Faces, Medical

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• Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back.

  Bruce Poon Tip

  Holiday, People, Giving

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Iran

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• We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Color, Prejudice, Agendas

  Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Important, Pork, Sausage

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

  Marvin Olasky

  Tired, Organization, Effort

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• If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

  Michael Schumacher

  Heart, Years, Ferrari

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• Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.

  Lindsey Davis

  Effort, Missing, Storm

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• It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Practice, Participation, Rational

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