Quotes About Community

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms designed to distinguish the initiated, and to keep strangers out.

Millets are an integral part of tribal life and a staple diet of tribals of Odisha since time immemorial.

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.

The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.

My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the person who is a serious contender to become head of state. They want their national leader - the tribal chief - to look like them, to live like them, to reflect their values.

Issues that have relevance to the tribal community have routinely been minimized and ignored.

I go to body combat classes. There's something very tribal about being in a room with 30 other women punching and kicking!

The overwhelming majority of Afghans are not tribal, and they're not Pashtun.

I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.

In Indian communities, it's a separate sovereign government, so you have to get permission from the tribal leadership before you can start campaigning on their land.

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

Fandoms are less tribal than they used to be.

For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.