Quotes About Community

Some people unpack when they first arrive in a city. Me, I look for Chinatown.

Many of us have joined a swim team at one time or another, and there is a shared foundational experience here that's worth examining. Battle past the desperate life-or-death phase of swimming, and you begin to appreciate how good the water feels. Join a team, and you begin to appreciate the company you keep. Competition happens when you get good enough at swimming to want to be better.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

What we're about in this band, I hope...is that we put people before ideas.

and still am, suspicious of the idea of oneness. I don't buy into the homogeneity of the human experience. I don't think we're all one. We can be one, but I don't think we have to see things the same way for that to be so. An anarchic thought: We're one but we're not the same. We get to carry each other, not that we've got to, just that we get to.

We're one but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other.

There is no them. There's only us.

Listen to me now I need to let you know You don't have to go it alone And it's you when I look in the mirror And it's you when I don't pick up the phone Sometimes you can't make it on your own

One love, one blood One life, you got to do what you should One life, with each other Sisters, brothers One life, but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other.

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.