Quotes About Community

It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion that professes concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It well has been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends.

The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

Such clubs and bars offered the perfect "third place," neither home nor work, where I could go to unwind and socialize. I wasn't ready to give that up.

question by drawing on classical social theory. He understood societies to be established through a form of social contract and to be maintained by individuals' willingness to subordinate personal desires to the regulation of the laws.

Well," said Winslowe, moving over to plant himself behind the wheel, "it don't matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another. If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.

Fifty years ago I knew the names of everyone who lived in my street. Now, in this age of information, I know the names of hardly anybody who lives in my street.

Each community lives by its own rules in a disconnected, parallel universe. Integration is like a ghost people speak of but no one ever sees.

If in the course of the day you do a good deed for a stranger, that stranger will do a good deed for a stranger who might be you.

A few words in a stranger's language reminds us of our shared humanity.

People will keep on doing the same things they like to do in many places not because they don't care about others. They just keep on holding on to opportunities while chances are still not ceased.

The pinnacle of success does not depend solely on one's luck or perseverance. It is also the environment and the people around you that let you reach the summit.

Being homeless is not the absence of the soul. I was homeless and needed help. Help yourself too, even if others will not offer anything for you.

The best choice you can make for yourself is to socialize with lesser evil.

The world becomes smaller when some people shuts the door for others.

You need not be a medical professional to be of service to others if the world calls for charity work.

Show your love to the world and don't keep it to yourself. That's what love is for!

There will always be house rules in every place. And you can be efficient and beneficial to everybody all the time by stepping on all corners of the place once in a while.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

It's not about you. It's about them.

Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.

In Sartre's style of argument, German metaphysics met French sophistry in a kind of European Coal and Steel Community producing nothing but rhetorical gas.

the men sit around in the square scratching their crotches and dreaming up their next war.