Quotes About Community

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.