Quotes About Community

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Without community, there is no liberation.

I want to thank everyone out there who has chosen not to drive after they have had something to drink.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

And her cracked voice confirming what they already knew: that God would carry them in the palm of His hand through their illness or grief or a long, hard birth. That's why people cared

Nothing at bottom is real except humanity.

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Muchos creyentes sacaron a Dios de sus vidas por culpa del comportamiento de otros cristianos! ¡Para mí, eso es una invitación a la superficialidad! Resolví ir al fondo en la evaluación de la mente de Jesús! ¡No me preocupan las consecuencias!

Padece usted una de las dolencias más normales en el género humano: la necesidad de comunicarse con sus semejantes.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

The Seder is long, but delightful, and no matter how sleepy we feel at the end of it we are very happy.

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

No woman was an island. Together, we were an archipelago; together, we were a goddamn continent.

Communities must make decisions and establish institutions that foster forgetting as much as remembering. Shredding the personal files of old Stasi (the former Fast Germany secret services) is an example of a communal decision to forget.

The problem tended to be couched primarily in terms of 'helping the immigrant to adjust to the host society', despite the fact that sections of the 'host society' were acting in rather an un-host-like fashion towards the new arrivals

Chameleon on being crowned shamelessly said that he would jointly work with those animals, whom he used to say beast and rebuke earlier, for the peace and progress of the jungle.