Quotes About Community

Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.

The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.

In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off and violence and public safety will improve as a result. We'll also be taking a big step in taking down the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately harms communities of color.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

This endless violence in the U.K. has to stop.

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

Violence on the community stops when the soul matures.

The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.

I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.