Building Community Quotes

• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Leadership, Community Living, Preparation

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2145, Delphi Classics

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

  Alan Hirsch

  Cancer, Support, Community

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.117, Baker Books

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  [O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

  Bell Hooks

  Community, Way, Resistance

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.227, Routledge

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Reflection, Community Living, Mirrors

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• Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Practice, Community

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• Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

  Howard Thurman

  Brother, Long, Community

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• A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Powerful, Struggle, Rights In America

  "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Character, Mean

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• Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

  Ted Malloch

  Creativity, Community, Three

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, 2011.

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• Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

  Peter Drucker

  Cities, Organization, Community

  "Civilizing the City". Leader to Leader, No. 7, 1998.

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• What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Government, Community

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

  Greg Brown

  Real, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth.

  Mardy Fish

  Sports, Gay, Bisexual

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• I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

  James Altucher

  Love Is, People, Community

  "The 10 Keys To Selling Anything" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, Community, Video

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.

  Ross Douthat

  Country, Years, Community

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Giving Up, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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