Quotes About Community

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

You can only govern men by serving them.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

We die alone, but we live among men.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Man was not made for himself alone

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.