Quotes About Community

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Happy is that family where both the husband and wife are mutual members of Christ's body

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

My family is very large. 42 million.

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.