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Quotes About Communities

Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
~ Vikram Patel
Dust is part of rural America. It is completely unreasonable for the EPA to put a price tag on communities for carrying out activities essential to their well-being. This is a prime example of federal regulations gone too far.
~ Stephen Fincher
Healthy children develop healthy communities, which in turn support a community's economic well-being.
~ Tae Yoo
If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.
~ Johan Rockstrom
The health and wellbeing of our children, our families, and our communities must be safeguarded.
~ Lucy McBath
Welsh voices and Welsh communities were heard in 2016 in their tens of thousands, in their droves. They voted to leave the European Union and since then they have had that slapped in their face actually often by Labour MPs who basically said we know better than you.
~ Claire Fox
When I visited Jerusalem and the West Bank back in 2008, I was shocked by how individual Palestinians and whole Palestinian communities were treated by the Israeli government. From the illegal settlements to daily humiliations at checkpoints, the evidence of gross injustice and the human suffering it brings is indisputable.
~ Ed Davey
President Biden has made an exceptional choice in nominating Gayle Manchin for Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. A longtime educator and West Virginia native, she understands the critical issues facing our Appalachian communities and is well-qualified to serve in this role.
~ Ralph Northam
We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.
~ Caroline Lucas
I agree with President Trump that we need good jobs in this country, but let's get to that business rather than the distractions of repealing Obamacare or raiding communities and taking otherwise law-abiding, contributing citizens away from their families.
~ Eric Garcetti
Missourians know all too well the destruction tornadoes can bring to schools and communities.
~ Mike Parson
Whole communities have been devastated as good-paying jobs continue to leave the U.S.
~ Kevin Brady
After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
USDA Rural Development is responsible for helping rural counties and small communities provide public services and foster economic growth. Often these investments help fill gaps that are hard to overcome with a rural tax base.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
My mission will be to improve life across Massachusetts, including communities and geographies that are seeing a slower economic recovery. Lower and fairer taxes are an important part of creating jobs and accomplishing that goal.
~ Charlie Baker
In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.
~ John Legend
Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
~ Rick Larsen
Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.
~ A.O. Scott
By refusing to accept white dominance in our schools, places of work, communities, and, yes, among those whites who consider us friends, we both show a due regard for our humanity and often convey enlightenment to whites deeply immersed in the still-widespread, deeply held beliefs of a white-dominated society.
~ Derrick Bell
I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.
~ Lori Lightfoot
Empowering communities by leveraging federal and local investments helps improve the federal-local relationship and advance shared priorities.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
I have a unique lens on how the extreme priorities of the NRA's leaders are dangerous for America, Atlanta and communities of color.
~ Lucy McBath
My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.
~ Kate Brown
Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as well as for communities.
~ Heather Mac Donald