Quotes About Community

There are thousands of kids like us, working across the country to make a sweet for rich kids in other places. Thousands. It's a number that matters to me so much that I can't wrap my mind around it.

A few reasonable policies won't do much good if the surrounding society is insane.

The twentieth century was a horrible detour in the evolution of the human habitat. We were building more for cars' mobility than children's happiness. —Enrique Peñalosa, 2008

Od razbacanog kamenja nikad se ne mogu sagraditi ?vrste gradske zidine.

For three years, he quietly built up the first community of believers, whose particular feature was that it gathered, without distinction, women and men of all clans and all social categories (although the bulk were young or poor).

Il faut désormais faire entendre la voix de ceux qui construisent des ponts, et non plus le seul vacarme de ceux qui détruisent et cloisonnent.

È un bene essere patrioti, sentire di appartenere a una società, a una nazione o a una comunità di fedeli, ma ciò non può giustificare il nazionalismo sciovinista e cieco, l'affermazione dell'eccezione e dell'elezione nazionale e/o religiosa, o ancora l'intransigenza dogmatica di coloro che difendono i propri correligionari in qualsiasi circostanza

The "salla bhangi," as he referred to the Dalit, lived on the other side of the village.

Riots mean fights—a conflict between one community and another is called a riot. But we cannot call these riots—these were attacks by one community on another. Torture. Persecution

Suronjon understood that this person who had built a world within herself, who had long stopped venturing outside her household, she who did not differentiate between Parveen and Archana, had suddenly been rattled. She too had begun to ask whether only Muslims felt fury, anger and pride.

And if you inquire for the good of your brethren only, what more have 21 ye done than others? is not this the conduct of the publicans also?

Para que no se me olviden las lesbianas. / So that I don't forget the lesbians.

I feel bad for you, experiencing such troubles. Let's look up as we move forward, though. You're fine the way you are. You have dreams so you'll be all right. You're not alone. If you keep walking, you'll find your path. Everyone is cheering for you. As you do your best, you shine. You'll succeed if you keep moving ahead with positive thinking; so, let's walk toward tomorrow together. The future is bright. We're people, we're people, we're people. . .

living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay at, everything is so black that y'all don't know what it feels like to be black.

You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody. Your other wife and your other girl is a secret?, I asked him. He put me down from his lap, so we could look each other in the face. No. You've got it the wrong way around. Dana you are the one that's a secret.

That's your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.

It takes being together to another level when you go to bed for a purpose larger than your own feelings.

kin is the circle you create, hands held tight.

Before we were living that Huxtable life. But now where are we? I know where you are and I know where I am, but where are WE?

As we made our way to the grave, I marveled at how a town so small had accumulated so many dead.

Nobody around here thought you did it. It was just the wrong race and the wrong time.

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.

All this hardheaded independence isn't helping me or anyone else.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.