Quotes About Community

I feel lucky... I have tremendous support so I've never felt alone.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.

Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.

If every community acts collectively, the city shall be clean.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.