Our Community Quotes - Page 4

• I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Community, Small Business, Working So Hard

  4 Copy quote

• Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Community, Police, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Beautiful, Effort, Community

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ultimately, the disconnect with the earth we have going relates to a deeper sickness of losing touch with our souls, our bodies, our communities. The collective stories about what is happening need to change. We need to reclaim a sense that we have a say in how things go.

  Frazey Ford

  Community, Soul, Body

  "Frazey Ford Interview: Finding Beauty". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think actually under scrutiny, Hillary's [Clinton] promotion of equal wages at poverty level and of healthcare for children but not for their families, of childcare when there are no jobs, it just doesn't cut it. I think women need a real agenda of justice because women are care-givers, because women are instruments of justice for our families and for our communities.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always knew I wanted to make music and share music. I followed my dreams and my passion. Et voila! And now it means not just me, but our community, have a voice. There was no internet, twitter, facebook, or instagram back then; now people with shared passions can unite their voice to share their values and thoughts, be heard, and make a difference. It's amazing - everyone can have a voice - and, as ONE, it can be incredible.

  David Guetta

  Dream, Passion, Mean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

  Frances Beinecke

  Fate, Animal, Community

  4 Copy quote

• There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Community, Gasoline, Buying

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

  Charlize Theron

  Sex, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.cnn.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of what they take from us into a Black bank that would serve our community. They set up a bank in their own community. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, my Teacher, called people like this "Bloodsuckers of the poor." All they want is to make a dollar, and run.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Running, Teacher, People

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Our World, Community

  9 Copy quote

• Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.

  Edward Kennedy

  Hard Work, America, Roots

  18 Copy quote

• Each one of us is like that butterfly the Butterfly Effect . And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations our families and our communities.

  Shawn Achor

  Moving, Butterfly, Positivity

  28 Copy quote

• Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.

  Lydia Davis

  Running, Morning, Taken

  17 Copy quote

• If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")

  Wendell Berry

  Real, Animal, Air

  Wendell Berry (2010). “The Hidden Wound”, p.129, Counterpoint Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants darkness to reign. Despite thise, we needn't worry or back away from our duty to our family (present or future), our community, or others, for God will always support and bless us in our honest efforts t odo His will. He wants us to suceed more than Satan wants us to fail- and God is always more powerful.

  John H. Groberg

  Children, Powerful, Worry

  9 Copy quote

• I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

  Sigourney Weaver

  New York, Cities, Community

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

  Alex Steffen

  Compassion, People, Community

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Real, Responsibility, Government

  4 Copy quote

• Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Mom, Children, School

  4 Copy quote

• I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mistake, Omission, Opposites

  30 Copy quote

• Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Running, Hate

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects”

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Community, Society

  13 Copy quote

• Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Thinking, Space

  7 Copy quote