Quotes About Community

stooges of the Raj, this well-entrenched, Raj-preferred party of landlords and landowners—Muslims in the province's west, Sikhs in the centre, and Hindu Jats in the east

Gandhi refused to accept that tanks and bombs constituted a nation's ultimate strength. To him, the health, education and unity of a nation's people were more important.

They belong to one another because, to use Gandhi's language, they drink the same water, breathe the same air and eat the same soil's produce. And because they share the same history, even while often looking at it from clashing angles.

Nishan Sahib), which was raised at every gurdwara from the 1620s, when Guru Hargobind led the community.

More often than not, a report that a cow was about to be slaughtered, or that a religious procession carrying Hindu idols was interfering with mosque prayers, set off stone-throwing or worse.

Caste taboos had been broken, and a measure of equality introduced. But they had also become a distinct community, which for writing used a new script called

Muslim preponderance in the police and the army' would be hit.

A work of statesmanship that will affect India and Indian history for many a long year. It is nothing less than the pulling back of 62 millions of people (India's Muslim population at the time) from joining the ranks of the seditious opposition (the Congress).

a minority community would have 'weightage', i.e. a representation larger than what the population ratio warranted

Only one is a wanderer. And when she was sad, she'd go into the streets to be with people.

to shrink the circle of intimate community to the smallest possible circumference. This is the spoiling of faithful friendship.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

the surest way to love our neighbor, Teresa advises, is not to dream of doing big deeds for our neighbor "one day," but to take advantage of the little, everyday opportunities that present themselves in ordinary life.

Here I do not refer to the simple love of charity we must have for all men but of that spiritual friendship by which two, three, or more souls share with one another their devotion and spiritual affections and establish a single spirit among themselves.

One is respected in a community to the extent, and only to the extent, that he or she respects his own position in life. There are doctors, lawyers, and even clergymen who are a disgrace to humanity, and the disciples of Christ were lowly fishermen. I would not, for all the world, have any one of you children grow up to feel that you were less than equal in every way to any other human being who walks the face of the earth.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

A society with more justice needs less charity.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.