Quotes About Community

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tengo has invited me to play with them.

When my husband and I worked as line cooks in LA, we lived in a constant state of broke and tired.

Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.

I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.

That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.

I don't attach any labels to myself and if I can be of any help to Kerala in terms of thinking about some of the economic issues there, provide my input which can be taken or discarded, I thought that would be a good thing to do.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it.

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!

My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community, you invest more. Because that's the Labour way.

Labour is the party for the many.

Liberation and equality will never come from the top down but through organising from the ground up, and our Labour movement has a crucial role to play in fighting for it.

I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.