Quotes About Communities

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Sorry. Trigger warning: Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.

It was quite obvious that neighborhoods and communities would be destroyed and people uprooted, but this was thought to be an acceptable cost of creating new transportation routes and facilitating urban economic development.

Communities suffering a disproportionate number of returnees from prison are not just filled with predators and "super predators." This supposition can become another mantra of white caricature of communities of color, and often is used to justify more systemic surveillance and police violence in those neighborhoods. It is more important to recall that even if some return as violent actors, just as many, or more, return as fearful and broken persons into those communities.

The symbol provides a spectacular drama wherein collectivized and concentrated dark bodies enable white communities to isolate transgression, and transgressive bodies, locating those bodies away from the allegedly purer and safer regions whites think they inhabit. Racial disparity and stereotype is thereby naturalized, appearing to white minds—and sometimes to some peoples of color themselves—as simply a way of marking social fault and transgression. At

If Christians do not act on a solidarity with criminalized populations, locked-down communities, and with others suffering extrajudicial and judicial violence, they themselves, along with many other citizens who think themselves free from the criminal justice system's negative effects, may find themselves easily caught up in the indignities of today's punishment regime, if they are not already.

But Rome expanded into a world not of communities living at peace with one another but of endemic violence

most immigrants are people who have either few skills or very high-level skills and, as a result, do not have good employment prospects in their home countries. By contrast, their compatriots with intermediate levels of skills—such as handymen or mechanics—have plenty of job opportunities available in their communities of origin, and thus tend not to migrate

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

What all this means is that the ecosystems of cities around the world are growing more and more alike; their communities of plants and animals, fungi, single-celled organisms, and viruses are slowly inching toward a single globalized, multi-purpose urban biodiversity. And even if the exact species across cities may not be identical, you will find similar species playing similar roles.

That was the real question, and the one that destroyed her credibility in the world of academia. When it came to omnipotent beings living in gated communities in the clouds, people were willing to believe almost anything, but when it came to otherworldly species, they demanded a level of proof that couldn't be demonstrated without producing a body. That

Mindless punishment and super-incarceration have been societal disasters: locking away tens of thousands of young people in hyper-violent prisons, dominated by institutionalized race wars, without any semblance of education, rehabilitation or hope. The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

where nothing seemed to change, war animated communities and bound people to one another. It satisfied a basic human need for festival.

Honramos y celebramos nuestra complejidad y nuestra simplicidad haciendo continuamente cinco cosas. Contamos historias. Realizamos rituales. Creamos belleza. Trabajamos en comunidades. Meditamos en creencias.

Here, again and again, the evangelists are telling the story of Jesus with an eye, rightly and properly, toward the communities they know will be reading these books as the foundational documents of their corporate life. The needs of the developing church were many and varied, and we can see the four gospels meeting those needs in different ways.

the colonists best suited to the Georgia experiment were not English but Swiss, German, French Huguenot, and Scottish Highlander, all of whom seemed prepared for lives of hardship, arriving as whole communities of farming families.

Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev.

Historians and sociologists in the 1960s and '70s had stressed that scientists work in communities where they are buffeted by the same social forces that prevail in all human communities, plus a few distinctive ones. One of these distinctive pressures was the pressure to innovate, which at times encouraged individuals to cut corners.

the gorgeous autumn purple of those distant moors, and the lush greenery of Ryedale with its host of tiny communities. To the east stands the tiny Minster of Thackerston

From the late 1940s through the early '60s, the Arab world had disgorged its Jews. Just as it had rescued us Yemenites, Israel rescued whole communities, flying myriad secret and perilous missions into the heart of Arabia.

Slavery has destroyed kingdoms and empires, and what may we not expect will happen to those religious communities in which this crying evil is tolerated? The least evils that we can expect are disaffection and division.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.