Quotes About Community

All of us, as humans, as Americans, as people who are lucky enough to be a part of this country's ideals, should care about our neighbors seeking refuge.

Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

If the Government put people before markets, it would build more council housing - a form of public investment in housing that pays for itself while offering refuge to those who most need it.

I'm going to build a refugee home together with friends.

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.

I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the children come from different countries and speak different languages. It's difficult to find things they can all connect and interact with that are non-verbal. Sport is it.

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

In countless communities across America today, refugees are giving back to the country that has given them a new start.

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way to do that is to have more economic immigrants, less refugees a little bit and less reunufication of families.

The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

My friends and family refused to give up on me even when I gave up on myself, and I wanted to hopefully encourage even just one person to try again.

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate in the political process.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.