Quotes About Community

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

A people must have dignity and identity.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.