Our Community Quotes - Page 10

• I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Running, New York, March On Washington

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

  Marita Golden

  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

  Himanshu Suri

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Iraq, Community, Intellectual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Mean, Destiny

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• The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Responsibility, Roots

  "Inner Peace, World Peace : Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence". Book by Kenneth Kraft, p. 2, 1992.

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• It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Thinking, Keys

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• If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Community, Police, Looks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

  Jay Ellis

  Men, America, Community

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].

  Jay Ellis

  Years, Numbers, Knowing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You got to have dedicated people, a lot of dedicated folk. There's only so much one person can do. We really have to find people in our community that can give an hour a week. I was recruited because I started gangbanging at 12. I understand the structure; I understand the people inside.

  Malik Yusef

  People, Giving, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Book, Reading

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• It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.

  Lisa Stone

  Compassion, People, Community

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• We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Government, Community

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• I'm delighted that our high school kids are developing these positives relationships with our police officers and getting such terrific hands-on experience. This will provide great benefits to our community now and in the future.

  Deb Matthews

  School, Kids, Hands

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• The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Destiny, Rights, Hands

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• (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Thug, Years, Cities

  "White House faces new racial crisis in Baltimore" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

  Pam Grier

  Girl, Healing, Boys

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.

  Greg Chappell

  Pain, Live Life, Athlete

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• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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• We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Circles, Community, Building

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• What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Community, Infrastructure, Members

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• Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Community, Forgiving, Needs

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