Quotes About Community

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.