Quotes About Community

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Oakland kids are always the best.

I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.

Let's make Oakland a model city.

The city of Oakland, since I got here, has been like my second family. They've taken me in and had my back through the hard times and they've celebrated with me through the good times. And so, I love Oakland.

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

We didn't have nine brands of cereal at home. We'd line up to fill our bowls from a giant vat of oatmeal.

I ask Hoosiers to come together and vote for Barack Obama to be our next President.

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

The dream of the theater for for me is that it's a room full of adults and kids. I want kids and grownups to be totally focused on the same object.

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

I come from a background where we have been taught to give back to the society, as it is an obligation for all of us.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.

Sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

I believe when the world faces a crisis, businesses and sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

I believe that every human being has a right to shelter. I also believe that when we provide that shelter, you have an obligation to use it, and I enforced that.