Quotes About Community

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Access to equal opportunity should not be constrained by zip-code.

When we launched WeWork back in 2010, we saw our opportunity to build community by bringing people together.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

We need folks to help us, as opposed to, 'Let's find who to blame, and let's try to bury those people.'

The biggest differences between Omaha and Hold'em is that you get four hole cards in Omaha as opposed to two in Hold'em, and in Omaha, you can only use two of your hole cards and must play three cards from the board.

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

When I was growing up I don't think Muslims and Jews were considered to be opposites.

We want to show Singaporeans that if you vote in an opposition party, it doesn't mean your town is going to descend into chaos.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves, and ourselves, within it.

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.