Quotes About Community

When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.

I like to celebrate the holiday season - not so much in a religious way, per se, but in a unifying way.

Hopefully, my administration will be known as a healing and unifying administration.

Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister was in the band. The thing was, the unifying civic activity was obsession over high school football.

These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.

The European Union is here to stay.

The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.

The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.

There must be no question for us that we in the European Union and the eurozone stand by Greece in solidarity.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

I remember a time when you were protesting on the street together with your professors, with your union, with your school organizations. Everybody was in the streets. Now, everybody is kept alone in his box, in this fragile condition, afraid of losing tenure.

I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.