Quotes About Community

We live largely separated from one another, and most people seem to be okay with that. It is not good enough to vote for politicians who will do the right thing on racial issues, or even to give money to worthy causes. If we are not actively trying to tear down the "fences to separate the races," as Justice Marshall described it, then we are all part of the problem.

We should feel proud that we are

This is the embodiment of heroic citizenship, a commitment to each other and to fixing problems. It is seeking solutions and not praise, progress and not personal aggrandizement. It is doing what is right for the sake of right.

The idea that we all had to go without, that we were all asked to sacrifice in even small ways, created a sense of togetherness. It was everyone's war, and everyone was encouraged to participate. The government sponsored drives to collect spare aluminum, rubber, and the like.

The more we are around people with a variety of life experiences, the more we can understand and value the needs and worth of our fellow citizens.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

What are YOU trying to accomplish? Do you have Whos in your life that give you the perspectives, resources, and ability to go beyond what you could do alone? Or are you keeping your goals so small to make them easier to accomplish them on your own?

Relationships are how you transform as a person. Relationships are how you transcend your current limitations. Relationships are how you produce results. Relationships are the purpose of life.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is an expert of understatement in his leadership of Linux development community. When eager programmers would ask him, '"What part of Linux should I work on?' his answer would usually be, '"Let me know when you find out' (p.286).

O Suburbs of Despair where nothing but the weather ever changes!

Here is the church, Here is the steeple, Open it up, And see all the people.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

Toker Etiquette was moving along, they had been studying advanced problems like where to pass a joint in a moving crowd.

He smiled. "I bet the paper ran something about you once your hiring was confirmed. A new cop is big news in a small town. People were probably admonished to make you feel at home." She shook her head with some amusement. "I would have felt more at home if they shot at me,.

Her insides quivered with the combination of terror and titillation. The bare bones truth was The Shimmy and Shake Shop needed an infusion of income, since her brand- new ice cream shop had to be rebuilt after a criminal tried to destroy it... and her. So much for the quiet small- town life. Murder, mayhem and milkshakes. Who'da thunk it?

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

People who read are never strangers.

When you betrayed someone, you didn't just betray them, you betrayed your families, your community, an entire way of life.

Easy equation. No jobs, no people. No people, no kids. No kids, no schools. No schools, no community. No community, no jobs, and the snake eats its tail and consumes itself.

the town. These people were

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.