Quotes About Community

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before.

I want cancer rates to fall.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

I'm really, really into the rave scene and just kind of how people come together and how it's just music and just love.

If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It's more outward-looking music than introspective.

Raven was the first drag queen I had ever seen. Her and Detox in L.A. when I was baby. I respect Raven and Detox so much.

When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.

If everyone had a business model like Raven + Lily, I feel like the world would be an awesome place to live in.

I always will be a Raven. That's where I was kind of raised in the NFL. I did a lot of growing, and we did a lot of special things. That's something that can never be taken away, and it never will. There's a lot of love there.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

I'm an advocate for if you take something, you have to give something back, and I think Raw Spirit shares that philosophy. I love that it gives back to the communities they partner with. It's just truly a pure of hearted company.