Community Quotes - Page 18

• A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

  Ned Sublette

  Rights, Peaceful, Purpose

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• Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Movement, Ends

  Interview with Colin McGregor, freesoftwaremagazine.com. January 23, 2008.

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• A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Mit, Computer

  Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing, www.gnu.org. 1996.

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• There is no shortage of evidence that when we support the fundamental freedoms of women and girls, they are able to realize their full potential to engage in, contribute to and benefit from sustainable development. In doing so, we will all reap the benefits; in our homes, throughout our communities, and across our nations.

  Sam Kutesa

  Girl, Home, Support

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• Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

  Stephen Lovegrove

  Distance, Live Life, Long

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• Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else’s day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

  Shari Arison

  Differences, Kind Deeds, Volunteer

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Creativity, Past

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• I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Brother, Father, Men

  Jesmyn Ward (2011). “Salvage the Bones: A Novel”, p.277, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

  Desmond Tutu

  Destiny, Common Humanity, Oneness

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• A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

  John Steinbeck

  Struggle, Animal, Looks

  Edward Flanders Ricketts, John Steinbeck (1978). “The Outer shores”

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• As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Poetry Life & Times – An Interview With Author-Poet Aberjhani". Interview with Sara L. Russell, Robin Ouzman Hislop, www.artvilla.com. March 18, 2015.

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• Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Class, Organization

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• Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Life Changing, Opportunity, College

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• In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is no substitute for love. It is easy to talk about the love of GOD; it is another thing to practice it

  Joan D. Chittister

  Practice, Work Out, God Love

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• When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

  Ariel Gore

  Support, Understanding, Study

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Sap, Ease, Kind

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• It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Practice, Participation, Rational

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• Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours.

  William E. Simon

  Country, Fighting, Ivory Tower

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• Effective results come from knowing what's in it for them. What's your community there for and how you can nurture it?

  Laura Fitton

  Knowing, Social Media, Results

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• I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Friendship, Believe, Garden

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.34, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

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• Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Police, Drug

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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• The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Mean, Advancement

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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