Quotes About Community

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.

Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority - not only for the gay community but for us all.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

There is more that unites us than divides us.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

I think police officers are modern day heroes. I think they protect us.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

Things will only improve when the people - all of us - say to authorities, 'I will hold you responsible.' We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization.

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you're hungry, we'll feed you. If you're homeless, we'll house you. If you're too poor to be sick, we'll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.