Quotes About Community

No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it.

There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

It's been said that you become the average of the five people you associate with the most.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a Wolf" – Nikita Khrushchev

Barking dogs, Sam knew from sad experience, weren't regarded with the same respect they once had been. There was a time when a barking dog would cause the homeowner to get up and look out the windows, just to make sure no one was prowling around the yard. Nowadays, though, most people simply wished the dog would shut up.

Noah, Noah," Monique said. "Crime is nothing. Crime is something that will always be a part of society.

In that city, if people caught the faintest whiff that you were in trouble, that you were a victim, your friends disappeared faster than a bowl of punch at an AA convention.

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

as I weaved and wended my dappled way toward Jackson Lane, I felt certain nobody here would ever commit an impolite crime, and whatever crimes they did commit, they would never be so vulgar as to get caught.

You got the feeling this wasn't a desert because the people didn't allow it to be, but whatever the earth gave, it gave grudgingly.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Local government is where the rubber hits the road. While state legislators and members of Congress are more remote, local officials are present and visible. They are the first responders of politics.

Jezza, Tezza, Mezza, Hezza, Quezza, Smezza, Sea Anemonezza and Dave:

As it happens, I look at that picture, and damn, he looks like family to me, too. But I know I would only be trolled on

being white is not about skin color, but security. It means you are protected because you are a member of the majority culture.

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, "howdy-howdy, God," and we jaw fer a bit.

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

Harlem had needed something to smash. To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5