Quotes About Community

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese.

Transform Yourself to Transform the World

Grace Lee Boggs

As Grace argues, echoing author Margaret Wheatley, movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.

If you want to make a revolution in the United States, you have to love this country enough to change it.

If you make happy those who are near, those who are far will come.

The Schuylers were one of the few families in those

She had a feeling as she listened that she had been sitting in a dark place all her life, and that during the last three weeks light had slowly begun to break. It seemed that tonight the light was like glory all around her. These people actually lived with God, referred everything to Him, wanted nothing that He did not send. They were in a distinct and startling sense a separated people, and she was beginning to long with all her heart that she might truly be one with them.

En Peyton Place había tres fuentes de escándalo: suicidio, asesinato y la deshonra de una muchacha soltera.

Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?

Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground, where I met a dozen young mothers intelligently handling their little ones. In order to prepare them, meaning no harm, I said, In fifteen years, you girls will be like me, wrong in everything

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

The special people God gives us along the way make us stronger to face the trials of an ugly world.

One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among us who had been enemies for generations forgot their grudges and joined one another against the invasion.

There is no They, Only Us.

Bad spellers of the world, untie!

However functional at the time, the idea of administering the state through religiously based communities strikes the contemporary observer as outmoded, the product of a different, more religious age. Yet, what then should the basis of identity be within the state? Ethnicity (language) or religion?

Yet of course nationalism is always "imagined"; identity is what you think you are.

Why can't our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other.

Everybody hears whispered gossip and rumors clear across town. But nobody hears the scream next door.

The paysans had no flags or written histories, but they expressed their local patriotism in much the same way as nations: by denigrating their neighbours and celebrating their own nobility.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.