Quotes About Community

the self-satisfaction and material preoccupations of his time was independent of his point about the injustices of poverty, the Vietnam War, and racial discrimination. But he saw them as connected. To reverse these injustices, Kennedy thought it necessary to challenge the complacent way of life he saw around him. He did not hesitate to be judgmental. And yet, by invoking Americans' pride in their country, he also, at the same time, appealed to a sense of community.

For the more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without these sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.

Few politicians speak that way today. In the decades after RFK, progressives largely abandoned the politics of community, patriotism, and the dignity of work, and offered instead the rhetoric of rising.

For Aristotle, politics is about something higher. It's about learning how to live a good life.

reflect a long-term and slowly unfolding loss of a way of life for the white, less educated working class.

From Aristotle to the American republican tradition, from Hegel to Catholic social teaching, theories of contributive justice teach us that we are most fully human when we contribute to the common good and earn the esteem of our fellow citizens for the contributions we make.

cuanto más nos concebimos como seres hechos a sí mismos y autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

Cô không có lá»—i khi tình c? ? trong má»™t xã há»™i không c?n nh?ng ph?m ch?t c?a cô.

Ít nh?t trên má»™t khía c?nh nào Ä'ó, nhi?u ng?i trong chúng ta may m?n có các ph?m ch?t mà xã há»™i tình c? coi tr?ng.

We've come to equate citizenship as an extension of market relations.

autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

Tenemos que preguntarnos si la solución a nuestro inflamable panorama político es llevar una vida más fiel al principio del mérito o si, por el contrario, debemos encontrarla en la búsqueda de un bien común más allá de tanta clasificación y tanto afán de éxito.

work, at its best, is a socially integrating activity, an arena of recognition, a way of honoring our obligation to contribute to the common good.

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

When we make the world a better place, the world makes us better people.

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Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents.

So it was that, figuratively speaking, Jews helped build the house from the foundations up, and then they were told that as Jews they were not welcome.

pantheon of the Jewish nation. Under these circumstances it seems to us an elementary imperative of Jewish self-respect that we Jews should at last again relinquish our claim on Spinoza. By so doing, we by no means surrender him to our enemies. Rather, we leave him to that distant and strange community of "neutrals" whom one can call, with considerable justice, the community of the "good Europeans."34