Quotes About Community

I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people I'll gladly climb the terrible stair That leads to the terrible steeple And the terrible rats And the terrible bats And the cats in the terrible steeple But I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people

Half a mile from Haverstraw there lived a halfwit fellow, Half his house was brick and red, and half was wood and yellow; Half the town knew half his name but only half could spell it. If you will sit for half an hour, I've half a mind to tell it.

what a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.

For that matter an individual with the money (between $500 and $2,000) and a place to put it can erect a historical marker.

What You Can Do About Sundown Towns: The Three-Step Program in Action To help sundown towns transcend their pasts and end second-generation sundown town issues, I suggest a "Three-Step Program": •?Admit it: "We did this." •?Apologize: "It was wrong, and we apologize." •?Renounce: "And we don't do it anymore.

Since "healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes," they went on to "pledge to work toward the common good in building a community where people of all races and cultural backgrounds are welcome to live and prosper.

Coming into repeated contact with the same few others does not have the same consequences as meeting new people, either for human culture or for culturing microbes.

Between 1950 and 1970, the suburban population doubled from 36 million to 74 million as 83% of the nation's population growth took place in the suburbs.

In 1920, Warren G. Harding ran his famous "front porch campaign" from his family home in Marion, Ohio; a few months before, Marion was the scene of an ethnic cleansing as whites drove out virtually every African American. According to Harding scholar Phillip Payne, "As a consequence, Marion is an overwhelming[ly] white town to this date [2002].

Garrett County is hardly colder than Detroit -- hardly colder in 2002, for that matter, when I had the conversation, than it had been in 1890, when it had 185 African Americans. The fact that the very next county to the east had more than 1,000 African Americans, while Garrett County had at most one black household, is a dead giveaway. Such abrupt disparities can only result from different racial policies, not from factors such as climate.

To end our segregated neighborhoods and towns requires a leap of the imagination: Americans have to understand that white racism is still a problem in the United States. This isn't always easy. Most white Americans do not see racism as a problem in their neighborhood. We need to know about sundown towns to know what to do about them.

Many sundown towns had not a single black household as late as the 2000 census, and some still openly exclude to this day.

In June 1906, the city council of Santa Ana, California, passed a resolution that called for the fire department to burn each and every one of the said buildings known as Chinatown; on June 26 a crowd of more than a thousand watched it burn.

From Myakka City, Florida, to Kennewick, Washington, the nation is dotted with thousands of all-white towns that are (or were until recently) all white on purpose.

Although each of us comes into the world de novo, we are not really new creatures. We arrive into a social slot, born not only to a family but also a religion, community, and, of course, a nation and a culture.

Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you. ~ African Proverb

If you want to go quickly-go alone, but if you want to go far-go together. ~ African Proverb

Home affairs are not talked about on the public square. ~ African Proverb

The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. ~ African Proverb

A friend is someone you share the path with. ~ African Proverb

In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes.

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That's my responsibility as being part of this planet.

No one ever gave me an instruction manual on how to be an openly gay man.

He was a gay man who had to leave home to find himself, not a gay man who had found himself within his own home.