Quotes About Community

This is how we form a better society. First we become better as individuals. You can't help others if you look in the mirror and hate what you see. And it's very easy to hate what is there. We live most of our lives hating the mirror.

I've seen it in action repeatedly: no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care. Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

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When you surrender and accept the beautiful stillness around you, when you give up all thoughts of the past, all worries and anxieties of the future, when you surround yourself with similarly positive people, when you tame the mind, when you keep healthy, there is zero chance of burnout.

Mother Theresa said if everyone swept in front of their house then the end result would be a clean world.

idea generation, of the good kind, the kind that helps you AND OTHERS, which is the type you will exercise in this book, is worth ten times that, or more.

I call this permission networking. My network is not the list of how many people I know. The strength of my network is how well everyone on the list of people I know, knows each other. Most people don't know this important principle.

If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

If you start hanging around with people who don't love and support you, then you'll die.

First you listened to people, then you took care of people, but now you unite people under a vision they believe in and trust and bond with.

We can feed ourselves but ultimately life is better when we feed each other.

Leadership doesn't ask the question "How good can I get? How far can I get?" Leadership asks the question "How far can the people around me get?

Leadership is not about achieving your dream. It's about helping everyone else achieve their dreams.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.

White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

All that hatred down there, he said, all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.

In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it

He laughed. 'Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I'm going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks are going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.

Their singing caused him to believe in the presence of the Lord; indeed, it was no longer a question of belief, because they made that presence real.

I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by the conditions of his life. All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in society.

The projects in Harlem are hated. They are hated almost as much as policemen, and this is saying a great deal. And they are hated for the same reason: both reveal, unbearably, the real attitude of the white world, no matter how many liberal speeches are made, no matter how many lofty editorials are written, no matter how many civil-rights commissions are set up.