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Quotes About Community

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.
~ Jean Vanier
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
~ Diane Abbott
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
~ Jesse Jackson
It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.
~ Glennon Melton
You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.
~ Betty Ford
So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.
~ Roxane Gay
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
~ Vandana Shiva
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
~ Jane Jacobs
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.
~ Huey Newton
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
~ Henry Rollins
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
~ Mark Twain
Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
~ Ovid
We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?
~ Tipper Gore
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah
~ P. C. Cast
There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
~ Rumi
We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.
~ David Jeremiah
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
~ Johnny Hart
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.
~ Sissy Spacek
If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.
~ Frederick Lenz
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Only the church of Jesus have the answers to dispel fear
~ Sunday Adelaja