Quotes About Community

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change.

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.

I feel Afghanistan has a very strong social fabric and sense of family... what I would like to do is encourage everybody in the country to appreciate more the role of women at home and outside.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

One should not forget that companies play a role in the social fabric of a nation. They are not just there to make a profit.

Here in North Jersey, our Muslim community is essential to our social fabric.

I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.

People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

In '88, '89, '90, '91... When I was making these albums, it would be four or five songs that didn't have any curse words, that were about social issues in the community.

I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.

Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.

I sing about social issues, not the boy-girl stuff.

Kulanu is the only party actually championing social issues.

With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.