Quotes About Community

How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.

Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our neighborhoods and our culture, I feel a responsibility to do something. I can see what's wrong with the system - that we have to recognize mental illness as we do cancer or broken bones - and how we need to make it better.

Military families are increasingly living away from military bases, embedded in civilian neighborhoods. It gives military families and civilians the opportunity for greater exposure to one another, yet many feel lonely and isolated.

The government should take all responsibility to continue with the social appeasement projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods to improve people's conditions.

Building trust between the community and police department is crucial. It makes the department stronger and our neighborhoods safer.

We must continue to fundamentally change how City Hall invests in neighborhoods by prioritizing areas where the need is greatest.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.

We are all neighbors. Be kind. Be gentle.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

My experience as a county commissioner has taught me that the best ideas often come from our neighbors, church groups, and community.

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.