Community Quotes - Page 6

• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Sacred

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

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• What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Time, Achievement, Happens

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Life, Peace

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

  Bell Hooks

  Way, Awareness, Domination

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.36, Routledge

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  I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

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• God creates men, but they choose each other.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men

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• Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

  Deborah Meier

  Inspirational, Family, Education

  Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press

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• Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

  Harry Chapin

  Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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• Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Benefits, World

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• Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

  George Mason

  Government, Safety, Society

  George Mason's remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, circa April 1775.

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• Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

  Antonio Machado

  Running, Atheism, Doe

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

  Orson Scott Card

  Persons, Defined

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.11, Macmillan

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• If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Peace, War, Society

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Peace, Risk

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• One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Country, Men, Kwanzaa

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• A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

  Saul Alinsky

  Black And White, Racism, Lasts

  Quoted in Jonathon Green, Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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• Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

  Tony Blair

  Conflict, Accepting, Default

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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  H. Rap Brown

  People, Black, Alliances

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• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Judging, Tears

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Jobs, Real, Work

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• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

  Stanislav Grof

  Real, Society, Might

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