Community Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Numbers, Issues

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Responsibility, Towns, Small Town

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Judging, Tears

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

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

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• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  Randall Terry

  Suicide, Acceptance, America

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• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Thinking, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions

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• I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

  Sigourney Weaver

  New York, Cities, Arms

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

  Wendell Berry

  Lonely, Hate, Drug Use

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.61, Counterpoint

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• Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

  Alice Hoffman

  School, People, Towns

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• That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Land, Earth

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.18, Library of America

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• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Jobs, Real, Work

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• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

  Stanislav Grof

  Real, Society, Might

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

  Budd Schulberg

  Interconnection

  FaceBook post by Budd Schulberg from Apr 08, 2015

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• With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Believe, Heart

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

  Michael N. Castle

  Children, School, Responsibility

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• But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ties, Political, Form

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• The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

  Aristotle

  Class, Political, Citizens

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 213

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• I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Living together is an art.

  William Pickens

  Relationship, Art, Together

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• Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

  Helen Keller

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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