Quotes About Community

Nothing can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else.

can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. In them, we discover we're not alone, we learn from one another, and so we keep going toward shared goals.

That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.

politics are a part of daily life.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind," in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive.

I love the coffee shops and reading rooms where one can sit and talk or browse forever. I

Na Terytorium India?skim panuje przekonanie, ?e trzeba czterech pokole?, aby uleczy? jeden akt przemocy.

On the road, I met couples traveling in RVs and discovered that a national roving group called RV Women provided campgrounds and community. Other gatherings were massive and seasonal—most famously, the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.

How do I love campuses? Let me count the ways. I

The Sacred Hoop

Politics don't begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.

if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn't find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn't decipher.

I aim not at getting honour but at contributing towards making society and its people worthy of honour.

The aim is not to be better than everyone else, it is to make everyone else better.

The surest way to make the world a better place for everyone is making everyone better for the world.

We don't need a better world, we need a better society.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.