Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
The harder I work the more I live.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
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