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Quotes About Communities

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.
~ Ariel Sharon
We need to open the frontier between the Earth and Moon to large-scale human activities, we need to establish human outposts and communities off the Earth and begin the job of doing so right away - and do so largely based on letting the people take over most of the jobs.
~ Rick Tumlinson
Make no mistake, the privatization of prisons is less about unburdening taxpayers than it is about providing bankrupt communities with sources of income and especially about providing corporations with a captured population available for unpaid labor.
~ Toni Morrison
By stopping Brexit, investing in skills and providing tailored support to key industries, we can get the UK economy back on track and help the communities that have been hit hardest by the threat of Brexit.
~ Jo Swinson
The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultimately, there should be some consequence - if you promote your racism online then there should be a consequence.
~ Issa Rae
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
Our broken immigration system has left too many people uncertain of whether they could be torn away from their homes, forced to leave their families, their communities, and their dreams behind.
~ Cori Bush
With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.
~ Widad Akreyi
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
~ Socrates
The world-wide struggle between the primary races of mankind—the 'conflict of color,' as it has been happily termed—bids fair to be the fundamental problem of the twentieth century, and great communities like the United States of America, the South African Confederation, and Australasia
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Those who are creating the riots are not in tune with their religion. They want to plunder and destroy. Don't you know why the sweet shops get ravaged? People hanker after sweets. And gold shops too, because of greed for gold. It's the criminals and hoodlums who are on this spree of loot and plunder. There's really no conflict between the communities.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Parenting is not just child-care. We can have a vision for formative instruction that will transform our homes and communities.
~ Tedd Tripp
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
~ Barack Obama
Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits.
~ Yemi Osinbajo
I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
~ Doug Baldwin
The key point is that not all sets of institutions, when you add up the sum of the parts, are equal. There are good and bad combinations. In some sets of institutions, people can flourish freely as individuals, as families, as communities. That is because the institutions effectively incentivize us to do good things Ã¢â'¬â€œ like, for example, inventing new and more efficient ways of working, or co-operating with our neighbours rather than trying to murder them. Conversely
~ Niall Ferguson
Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.
~ Opal Tometi
The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
~ Ann Cotton
It is the integrative synergy of the arts, based on cultural traditions and current trauma-informed practice, that is requisite to addressing traumatic stress with most children, adults, families, groups, and communities.
~ Cathy A. Malchiodi
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe.
~ Cathy McMorris
It is, however, challenging to note that we are now living in this current aftermath that is defined by micropowers and small communities but are still dependent on our memories of size and strength and still constrained by the polity, policies, and practices once effective in large institutions.
~ Gil Rendle
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to discriminate against communities of color and particularly African Americans.
~ Lori Lightfoot
Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
~ Peter Maurer