Quotes About Community

From my first day inside, I recognized that this odd coupling-housing leprosy patients with federal convicts- would make a great story

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

Hate was just a legend And war was never known The people worked together And they lifted many stones. They carried them to the flatlands And they died along the way But they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today.

If the well-being of my loved place depends on the well-being of Earth, I have a good reason for supporting the well-being of your loved place. I have selfish as well as cosmopolitan reasons for preserving the home-places of all human beings. Cosmopolitanism becomes thicker and more potent with this realization.

The kids I've seen make it have followed various trajectories, but they all have a consistent relationship with at least one trusted adult.

What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.

I'm homesick, not for America, but for Negroes.

Clare Kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged to it.

[On Chicago:] Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.

The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

never get hurt for few people who don't love you ,turn around and you will see a million of them who cares for you

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.