Quotes About Community

I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it.

the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.

The practice of mutilating women's genitals in Eritrea predated the arrival of both religions, and for hundreds of years neither faith had questioned it. The

we may stand at safe distance from one another, so that the ill do not infect the well.

We expected that the international community would put a stop to it. I believed that. I was worried about getting through a few days, that's all, while the world—how do you say?—got its act together.

asked how, if he never had spoken before to women outside his family, he was able to serve as spiritual counselor to the village women. My friend looked at me strangely. "They put their problems to him through their husbands, of course," he said. "But what if their husband is their problem?" That possibility hadn't crossed either man's mind.

Hey man, how's things in Chocolate

Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of any relevance to them. We

Daniel straightened. "Girl, he should have sped up, kept on running right to a well-lit road, and called some White folk to help her. He just didn't know how he needed to be if he was going to live in this country.

Sometimes, I think if you took all the universities and all the hospitals out of greater Boston, you'd be able to fit what's left into about six city blocks

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.

Had not the Muslims, Jews, and Christians shared these lands in contentment—in convivencia—for hundreds of years? What was the saying? Christians raise the armies, Muslims raise the buildings, Jews raise the money.

To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

Everybody gets depressed; it's totally normal.

Jesus was not just concerned with souls. He wanted a changed society. That is precisely why he begins the new thing within a community of disciples whom he orders to quit acting as if they are superior, to forgive one another seventy-seven times a day, and to turn the other cheek when someone strikes them.

The harmony and unity in a church will never exceed the harmony and unity in the homes represented in the congregation.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

No doctor is better than three.

Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.

I'm realizing how short people's memories are, and what's written here could help them remember what it was like for us. This is not just my story, or your mother's, or your Uncle Joseph's, or Farmer Ben's. This is the story of so many people who lived through those times like us. This is our story. All of us. And it's important not to forget.