Quotes About Community

You is blessin' folks with your dollars and service, but a dollar bill and plate of food ain't changin' a life. That takes love.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

Acts 4:32–35)

iglesia del Nuevo Testamento siguió el ejemplo de su Maestro.

and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact. I mean that is part of the reason why solitary confinement is such a horrendous punishment. We depend on the other in order for us to be fully who we are. (...) The concept of Ubuntu says: A person is a person through other persons.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

It is true that when we harm others, we harm ourselves; but it is just as true that when we help others, we also help ourselves.

do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.

A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community.

None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Only in restoring the web of connection can we find peace. I'm sure it is possible to heal in a mountaintop cave alone, but for most of us the quickest and deepest healing happens in the embrace of others.

The moment for which I had waited so long came and I folded my ballot paper and cast my vote. Wow! I shouted, 'Yippee!' It was giddy stuff. It was like falling in love. The sky looked blue and more beautiful. I saw the people in a new light. They were beautiful, they were transfigured. I too was transfigured. It was dreamlike.

as we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons. To dehumanize another inexorably means that one is dehumanized as well.

After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This

What a profound scientific discovery that blacks, Coloreds (usually people of mixed race), and Indians were in fact human beings, who had the same concerns and anxieties and aspirations. They wanted a decent home, a good job, a safe environment for their families, good schools for their children, and almost none wanted to drive the whites into the sea. They just wanted their place in the sun. Everywhere else elections are

Why does no one in America recite poetry?" Aziz complains. "They go to the coffeehouse and they just drink the coffee.