Quotes About Community

There was nothing wrong with progress, with the evolution of a society, with developments in technology, but when avarice directed progress, the natural order of a community was destroyed.

Place had an ill or special needs sibling and needed time together with others in the same situation.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are next; the sovereign is the lightest.

Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?" "Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.

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It is true that my shunning was a message from our community to my mother. Her rejection of me was a measure of the humiliation she felt. She believed until her death that I caused her to lose her friends and her stature in the town.

Ya got trouble, folks,Right here in River City.Trouble with a capital "T"And that rhymes with "P"And that stands for Pool!

I've frequently been told things like: "Girl, you've been hanging out with too many white folk" ; "What do you have to be depressed about? If our people could make it through slavery, we can make it through anything" ; "Take your troubles to Jesus, not no damn psychiatrist.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Each homosexual must, of course, come out at his own time and in his own way, but homosexuals, the older as well as the younger, the ones in Brooks Brothers suits as well as those in black turtleneck sweaters have, I think, an obligation to declare themselves whenever they decently can.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Conscious Youth is the one who gives hope in its environment for sustainable development.

Theology is ultimately political. The way human communities deify the transcendent and determine the categories of good and evil have more to do with the power dynamics of the social systems which create the theologies than with the spontaneous revelation of truth from another quarter

in the work of R. D. Laing, who questioned the social construction of mental illness: "Setting the sick apart sustains the fantasy that we are whole." The

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

everybody was a lady—the fish lady, the yam lady, the store lady, the teacher lady'.6 She noticed, however, many instances of self-contempt. 'When I was a child,' she said, 'nearly everything about us was bad, you know; they would tell yuh seh yuh have bad hair, that black people bad… and that the language yuh talk was bad. And I know that a lot of people I knew were not bad at all, they were nice people and they talked this language.'7

Conversation is food for the soul.