Quotes About Community

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

And so I remember moving to LA, going to the Islamic center in Hollywood and feeling like the cultural element wasn't what we were operating from as much as the spiritual one, and that was really cool. That was really good for, you know, my growth and my development.

I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to do in Mississippi to get elected and stay elected. I try to show them we are all in this together.

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

I'm completely of the opinion that anybody can do CrossFit.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

To be in Society is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

Ya sabes que nosotros, los pobres artistas, tenemos que aparecer en sociedad de cuando en cuando para recordar al público que no somos salvajes.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Ah! what a nuisance people's people are!

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

LA VIDA NO ES LA QUE VIVIMOS. LA VIDA ES EL HONOR Y EL RECUERDO. POR ESO MAS VALE MORIR CON EL PUEBLO VIVO, Y NO VIVIR CON EL PUEBLO MUERTO. Life is not as it seems, Life is pride and personal history. Thus it is better that one die and that the people should live, rahter than one live and the people should die. ~Lopitos

the man was never comfortable unless he was in the company of people who were crazier than he was.

You've got to be a warrior," her father told her. "There are certain things you might have to do, for the sake of all black people. And no matter what you do as an individual, you're reflecting your group and your family. So make sure you're correct.

Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness. (Page 64)