Quotes About Community

Cultures that develop around the notion of an authoritarian Father God inevitably oppress those who do not fit the image of the all-powerful, adult, human male: children, women, homosexuals, and the nonhuman communities of animal, plant, and mineral life with which we live and share the planet.

It's not a book club if there isn't wine.

Find who's fun and smart and safe, and stick with them.

One day at a time. One foot in front of the other. All for one.

It is not enough to be loved by your mother. It is a good start, and you wouldn't want to do without, and it helps, but is not enough. You need also the love of your community, the love of friends and admirers, the love of strangers who don't know you but still wish you well, the love that comes from passion and from commitment and from someone who will never, never betray you and not just because they're related to you. You need more love. We all need more love.

Fitting in and being normal doesn't exist; not for a few years in the middle.

Like with wine?" Poppy was intrigued. "It's not a book club if there isn't wine.

This is a medical issue, but mostly it's a cultural issue. It's a social issue and an emotional issue and a family dynamic issue and a community issue.

Children learn many wonderful things in kindergarten. How to line up for lunch. How to use inside voices. How to not push people. Important life skills for sure. I use them every day myself. But they learn other things too: you have to conform, or people might not like you; you have to be the same because different doesn't feel good. At home, Claude's loved no matter what. At school, it sometimes feels the opposite: you are not loved no matter what.

You could sit down with another mom, even one halfway around the world whose life was very different from your own, and find easy conversation, shared spirit,

if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

This is a medical issue, but mostly it's a cultural issue. It's a social issue and an emotional issue and a family dynamic issue and a community issue. Maybe we need to medically intervene so Poppy doesn't grow a beard. Or maybe the world needs to learn to love a person with a beard who goes by "she" and wears a skirt.

The Institute of Medicine report hit the public health community like buckets of ice water, waking it up but leaving it shivering in its impoverished, unheated facilities, unable to muster the energy to tackle the problem.

What is worth doing is worth merely beginning. —Mackapee's Principles for Community

That means anyone can serve the Earth, humankind and all life by spending time (every day, once a week, once a month), alone or in groups, concentrating their prodigious energies to help others. This can be accomplished through chanting, meditating, drumming, visualizing or whatever serves best. And while doing good deeds (volunteering, being active for affirmative change) is important, purposefully manifesting through positive, concentrated intention is vital to this transition.

It is our American tradition to come together in times of tragedy. This is how we grow as a people and as a nation.

I get a kick out of people who talk like it only happened to them," says lawyer Denis Kelly. "I wonder, 'Didn't you notice that everybody else is going through it?

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.

Might I point out that nobody connected with my agility class has ever been murdered?

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Herricks to the Baptist chapel. Though they often strolled