Community Quotes - Page 15

• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

  Jenny Downham

  Years, People, Technique

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• Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.

  B. F. Skinner

  Hands, People, Technique

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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• If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

  Rudger Clawson

  Music, Song, Character

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• A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

  Robert Reed

  Entrepreneur, Working Together, Groups

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• A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

  Robert Reed

  Entrepreneur, Together, Needs

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• Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Father, School

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

  Hilda Solis

  Lunch, Mentor, Teens

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• We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Leadership, Sports, Sake

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• We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic.

  Newt Gingrich

  War, Thinking, Israel

  "Palestinians are an invented people, says Newt Gingrich". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2011.

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• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Marginalized

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• Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

  Donna Brazile

  Jesus, People, Roles

  "Millions Insulted by Liberals' Use of Jesus Christ/Pontius Pilate Line". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 12, 2008.

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• I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leader, Looks

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• When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Needs, Injustice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Dream, Reality, Creating

  "Obama to Hispanics on immigrants: I see my kids", www.foxnews.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

  Lana Del Rey

  Falling In Love, Class, People

  "Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. January 29, 2012.

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• It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Responsibility, Currency, Stability

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• We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

  Pablo Picasso

  Tunnels, Light, Able

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• The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, Cities, People

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• You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

  Pope Francis

  Church, May, Way

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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• The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Children, Integrity

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• An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others

  Pope Francis

  Distance, Bridges, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.12, BookBaby

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• May this colloquium be an inspiration to all who seek to support and strengthen the union of man and woman in marriage as a unique, natural, fundamental and beautiful good for persons, families, communities, and whole societies.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Unique

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• Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Blood, White, Black

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• How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

  Friedrich Engels

  Thinking, Political, Transition

  Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (2004). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

  Elihu Root

  Exercise, Calling, Association

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