Quotes About Community

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change.

When we send the whole church to build the church (instead of leaving it to the religious professionals), God's power is unleashed in full force.

Friends are the most important commodity in the world. Even a tree needs a friend.

We declare you the new mayor!" declares the crowd. what about the old mayor?" I'll ask. I'm not the one with the big plans!" he'll say.

The whole process at the "Inny," as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nati—You're born not for yourself but for the whole world.

What we see in stark relief is that the production of goods is about social relationships.

friends to the dining hall as guests and pay for their food. I suspect that for some of these kids, that was the main meal they

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

For the next hour, Joanne clung to Spence's back, comfortable now with the enforced physical intimacy, loving the wind on her face, the swoops and dizzying corners , the way other bikers saluted as if she and Spence belonged, with them, to a select club.

Why is it that with birthday cakes you can blow on them and spit on them and everyone rushes to get a piece?

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

the only thing worthy of joy is a situation where not only the individual but also society as a whole wages a constant battle for self-justification.

But one never has it easy with that son of mine, one has one devil of a time." Mom was conversing and setting spoons and forks on either side of the Sevres plates "because since he was a youngster he was always, still is, elsewhere, home was hell to him, he just came in to sleep, morning to night he'd be out on Polni Street, the entire town knew him, because he was forever at somebody else's, always wanting to be somewhere other than where he was.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.

The original prohibitions at public pools were put in place in fear of this very thing: people of different races, genders, and backgrounds mixing together.

When I ask one swimmer, a middle-aged woman named Kate, how she'd characterize the two clubs, she confides that the Dolphin Club is "like living with your parents—we're more conservative. The South End is like the frat house. They're more risky." Standing next to Kate is her friend, a South Ender, who laughs appreciatively at this.)

Differences fell away in the water.