Quotes About Community

In 1981, I was a community organizer.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

A lot of organizers are trying to figure out how do we create entrances for people so they can be involved in the work in a way that makes them feel is aligned to the things they're interested in and not the things the organizer is interested in?

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.

The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.

We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

Intersectional organizing is the new agenda. And if we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose together. If we win, we're gonna win together.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people. My older sister would be part of youth organizing, and she'd have dance parties. People would be dancing and talking about how to improve their neighborhood.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

I'm from a town in Ohio called Orient.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

From the first-year students' fall orientation to the board's annual budget-approval meeting, everything a healthy college does requires a shared sense of mission.

I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.