Quotes About Community

Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Boa parte dos taxistas não trazem gente pra nossa rua Falam que podem levar tiro ou acabar morrendo Aí fico pensando nesse caso o que é que eu sou Uma pessoa à prova de balas ou alguém que já morreu.

mudanças sociais e culturais duradouras são obra de pessoas comuns que fazem coisas extraordinárias.

não há nada mais poderoso que a solidariedade global, que nos traz uma segurança coletiva para que continuemos nos expressado e uma coragem ainda maior naquilo que queremos realizar.

A parceria com o movimento comunitário nos ajudou a ver a situação dessas mulheres sob uma lente que analisa a violência contra a mulher por meio de uma perspectiva sociopolítica.

Anne Hutchinson's greatest crime, and the source of her power, was the series of weekly public meetings she held at her house to discuss Scripture and theology.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a 'safe place,' but rather a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that's wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that's wrong with them,

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

Talvez o facto de viver numa grande cidade como Londres me levasse a desconfiar de estranhos, hábito que queria perder.

Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

I AM homesick after mine own kind, Oh I know that there are folk about me, friendly faces, But I am homesick after mine own kind.

Man…need not stand alone. Prayer will open doors; prayer will remove barriers; prayer will ease pressures; prayer will give inner peace and comfort during times of strain and stress and difficulty.

We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and do what is best for the kingdom of God.

Los artistas tienen el cerebro inflamado de fantasías y por eso se les hace difícil adoptar el proceder del común. Pero si no lo tuvieran poseído por sus ficciones, no podrían luego construir esas complejas armaduras oníricas que exigen años de trabajo. El artista es su primera ficción. Así que ningún artista sabe quién es en realidad o qué desusado ciudadano ven en él sus vecinos.

If we could only learn to trust one another--Tagalogs trusting Ilokanos, Pampangos trusting Tagalogs. -The Cripple

Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them who come asking for loans. But always, in the end, the tenants got the money--what they needed for a "decent" funeral, a baptism, a wedding. And as their debts piled up, they promised, "Next harvest will be good...

I knew long ago that their blood is the same as mine. No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.