Quotes About Community

Make new friends and march with them. For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. Second, people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends.

What might seem like a gesture of pride can be a source of exclusion.

You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them. Even

The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds.

Teresa now observed that people quietly allowed their Jewish friends to slip away from their lives.

It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.

a man can be human only under human conditions." The purpose of the state is to preserve these conditions, so that its citizens need not see personal survival as their only goal.

It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well.

You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them. Even the history of lapel pins is far from innocent.

If we can avoid doing violence to the minds of unseen others on the internet, others will learn to do the same. And then perhaps our internet traffic will cease to look like one great, bloody accident.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If

Make eye contact and small talk.

people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest

Contribute to good causes.

Sharing in an undertaking teaches us that we can trust people beyond a narrow circle of friends and families, and helps us to recognize authorities from whom we can learn. The

smile, a handshake, or a word of greeting—banal gestures in a normal situation—took on great significance. When friends, colleagues, and acquaintances looked away or crossed the street to avoid contact, fear grew. You might not be sure, today or tomorrow, who feels threatened in the United States. But if you affirm everyone, you can be sure that certain people

Having old friends is the politics of last resort.

The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We

Every man has a name given by the stars given by his neighbors. —ZELDA MISHKOVSKY, 1974

Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

One day I dream that we can grow in a matured society where nobody would be 'normal or abnormal' but just human beings, accepting any other human being -- ready to grow together.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.