Quotes About Community

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

People love to laugh together. Like when I'm at home and I'm watching shows, I don't laugh out loud, but if I'm in a crowd and everyone is into it...

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don't worry about it.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

I love Twitter; I'm on Twitter quite a lot.

Be extra good. Upon your shoulders rests the reputation of all Chinese.

Louann is ours, Amy thought. That's it. We know what she can do and what she can't do. We don't need any Mrs. Peck trying to change things.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.

And to think that he was going to live right here in the neighborhood!

IRWIN J. SNEED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The task for each of us, White or of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

Just as girls who have become interested in boys become disdainful of their friends still interested in dolls, the Black teens who are at the table can be quite judgmental toward those who are not. "If I think it is a sign of authentic Blackness to sit at this table, then you should too.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Yes, we have an innate tendency to think in us and them categories, but we look to the leader to help us know who the us is and who the them is. The leader can define who is in and who is out... When the leader draws the circle in an exclusionary way, with the rhetoric of hostility, the sense of threat among the followers is heightened. When the rhetoric is expansive and inclusionary, the threat is reduced.

Not surprisingly, of all racial groups, Whites are the most isolated. They are the most likely to live in racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, we are caught in a "network of mutuality," and that means our collective fate is intertwined. We will thrive or fail together.

White parents with White children, and Black parents, like his own, with Black children.

racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23