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Quotes About Community

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
~ Bode Miller
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
~ Emma Lazarus
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
~ Bernard Malamud
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
~ George Soros
To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
~ David Ortiz
Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.
~ bell hooks
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
~ Loren Eiseley
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
~ Erwin McManus
I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.
~ Sho Baraka
The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
~ Alain de Benoist
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
~ Jan Schakowsky
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.
~ June Jordan
Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.
~ Nelson Mandela
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
~ Rollo May
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
~ George Takei
All go free when multitudes offend.
~ Lucan
Freedom is an endless meeting.
~ Ken Wilber
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Freedom is a public library.
~ Paula Fox
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.
~ Hakim Bey
Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
~ Sergio Aragones