Our Community Quotes - Page 13

• The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

  Peter Block

  Caring, Self, Community

  Peter Block (2009). “Community: The Structure of Belonging”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Art, Community

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• Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Character, Responsibility, Community

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• The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Organization, Goal

  "Obama Faith Council". www.pbs.org. February 6, 2009.

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• The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

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• The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

  Jim Costa

  Community, Criminals, Way

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• Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations.

  Wendell Berry

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.23, Counterpoint Press

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• Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Kindness, Community, Together

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• Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Two, Airports, Texas

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• People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Community, Needs

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• We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

  T.I.

  Responsibility, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

  T.I.

  Community, Transforming

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

  T.I.

  Community, One Day, Investing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the same time the reasons why we were at San Francisco State in the late sixties was because of the agitation and movement building that had occurred within our communities. We saw ourselves not separate from the community but intimately connected to it.

  Danny Glover

  Teacher, San Francisco, Community

  Source: progressive.org

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• We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Cities, Issues, Community

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.

  Steve Harvey

  Mean, Community, Done

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• In the days ahead, I will propose more ways for more Americans to get involved in national service and give back to our communities, because every one of us has a role to play in building the future we want.

  Hillary Clinton

  Play, Giving, Community

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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