Community Quotes - Page 38

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

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Jobs, Development, Rebuilding

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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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• 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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• Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Book, Icons, Deception

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• Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

  Gabriel Vahanian

  Togetherness, Substitutes, Communion

  Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Playing Music, Different

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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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• You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

  Chris Hardwick

  Numbers, People, Listening

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• The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’ 

  Susan Cain

  Religious, People, Events

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

  Herbert Gold

  Art, Family Love, Needs

  Herbert Gold (1971). “The Magic Will: Stories & Essays”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

  Serge Lang

  Views, Serious, Ordinary

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.266, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  Yishan Wong

  Mean, News, Links

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• All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.

  Yishan Wong

  Powerful, Thinking, World

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• Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

  Johnny Otis

  Choices, Greek, Black

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• The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

  Lee Whitnum

  Taken, Jewish Community, Care

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• I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

  Yishan Wong

  Powerful, Unique, Thinking

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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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• The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

  Peter York

  House, Generations, Landscape

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• Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Loneliness, Stress, Believe

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• L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

  Sheryl Crow

  Nashville, Music Industry, Feels

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• It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

  Brian Jordan

  Home, Feels

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• You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

  Joseph Jarman

  Unique, Western Culture, Faces

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• I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies.

  Lauren Potter

  Dream, School, Bully

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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