Community Quotes - Page 35

• The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

  Dwyane Wade

  Teammate, Recognition, Members

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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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• With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

  Dean Ornish

  Past, Ties, People

  "Can Online Communities Be Healing?" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2013.

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• People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

  Dean Ornish

  Lonely, Strong, People

  "Dean Ornish Talks Lifestyle As Treatment At NYC’s Integrative Healthcare Symposium". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2012.

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• There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Ordinary, Scoundrels

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

  David Satcher

  America, Challenges, Physicians

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• I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.

  Lee Maracle

  Art, Thinking, People

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• You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Given, Rendering

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• In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Used, Music Is

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• To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

  Robin Hobb

  Responsibility, Groups, Duty

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.991, Del Rey

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• I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

  Bobby Seale

  Organizer

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• Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

  Philip Yancey

  Intellectual, Christianity, Internals

  Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson (2001). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.23, Zondervan

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• It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, Political, Unions

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.113

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• We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Jobs, Development, Rebuilding

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• A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

  Catherine McAuley

  Charity, Reign, Difficulty

  Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.70, CUA Press

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

  Paul Pierce

  Ubuntu, Together, Helping

  "Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics Talks Holiday Traditions with Bleacher Report". Interview with Mike Walsh, bleacherreport.com. December 12, 2012.

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• To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

  Amartya Sen

  Eye, Assessment, Justice

  Amartya Sen (2009). “The Idea of Justice”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Balance, Rotten

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every two years. They perform, tour, record, and collaborate constantly. Uprise.fm will not only make these rare and unique recordings available, we will ensure that the artists are fairly compensated for this work.

  Daniel Lanois

  Artist, Unique, Years

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• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Character, Home, Heart

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• Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

  Archie Shepp

  Rap, Roots, Long

  "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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• Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

  David L. Bazelon

  Law, Defense, Nullification

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• I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Encounters, Culture

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• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

  Janet Reno

  America, Effort, Violence

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• We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

  Janet Reno

  Years, Want, Next

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