Quotes About Community

Onun ya?ad??? yerde ya?amak, onun gibi ya?amak de?ildi.

Bereket versin, Anadolu'nun bu yaln?z kendisine mahsus dertleri yan?nda bunlar?n gene yaln?z kendisine mahsus çareleri vard?r. Bunlardan en birincisi "rak?d?r".

Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r.

on seneden beri içlerinde ya?ad??? halde bir türlü al??amad??? bu insanlar?n aras?nda onun da sa?lam bir yeri olmal?yd?. Yaln?z kendisine dayanan yaln?z kendisinin olan bir yeri.

Hepimizi ?stanbul'a ba?layan sadece bu...Burada insan, kafas?n? zerre kadar i?letmeden, mütefekkir bir kimse oldu?una inanmak ve buna ba?kalar?n? da inand?rmak imkan?na malik...Bu ?ehrin ve buradaki muhitlerin dayan?lmaz cazibesi i?te bundan ibaret.

Bizim küçük Anadolu ?ehirlerimizde bu müzmin evlenme hastal??? daima hüküm sürmektedir. En kuvvetliler bile bir iki sene dayanabildikten sonra bu amans?z mikroptan yakalar?n? kurtaramazlar ve kör gibi, önlerine ilk ç?kanla evlenirler.

Ben ev halk?na niçin bu yalan? söyledi?ini de?il, bana niçin hakikati söyledi?ini merak ediyor, fakat bundan biraz da gurur duyuyordum: Bir insana ba?kalar?ndan daha yak?n olman?n gururunu.

Humanity is not like a bundle of sticks, a cluster of hardly outlined microcosms, nor an arithmetical addition of integers, but is a body constituted, after the fashion of the human body, of adapted members, living, throbbing and moving as one.

No one had ever told them they were worth saving, and they were taught to believe they were forever lost to a world of thievery, prostitution and murder. But it wasn't true. They were capable of more. She could tell from the way some of them helped each other, the way others sat down at once to begin sewing, the way Ann took aside one of the little boys and patiently showed him how to pick a pocket—

One of the biggest problems in the world today is loneliness.

But in rage, you become one with a group; out of rage, you become one with the universe.

you will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Where the really sincere white people have got to do their "proving" of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is—and that's in their own home communities; America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where the sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. Aside

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that same respect and recognition isn't shown towards everyone of our people in this country–it doesn't exist for me.

Our unity shocked them and we should continue to shock the white man by working together." (Set the Night on Fire)

In the United States, it is our weakness to confuse the numerical strength of an organization and the publicity attached to leaders with the germinating forces that sow the seeds of social upheaval in our community.

This is still one of the black man's big troubles today. So many of those so-called "upper class" Negroes are so busy trying to impress on the white man that they are "different from those others" that they can't see they are only helping the white man to keep his low opinion of all Negroes.

There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.

For the Muslims, I'm too worldly. For other groups, I'm too religious. For militants, I'm too moderate. For moderates, I'm too militant. I feel like I'm on a tightrope.

The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. The time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone.

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

In the ghettoes the white man has built for us, he has forced us not to aspire to greater things, but to view everyday living as survival-and in that kind of a community, survival is what is respected.

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You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.