Quotes About Community

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or savour their songs. I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.

Men have different capacities and react differently to stress. But the stronger ones raised up the weaker ones, and both became stronger in the process.

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

No matter what I suffered in my pursuit of freedom, I always took strength from the fact that I was fighting with and for my own people. Bram was a free man who fought against his own people to ensure the freedom of others

I am your servant…. It is not the individuals that matter, but the collective….

Il nostro giocare in piccolo non serve al mondo.

Každý ?lov?k má v život? dvojí závazek - v??i rodin?, rodi??m, žen? a d?tem, ale také v??i národu, komunit?, zemi.

In that moment, something stirred deep inside all of us, something strong and intimate, that bound us to one another. In that moment we felt the hand of the great past that made us what we were and the power of the great cause that linked us all together.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

It reminded me once again that truly to lead one's people one must also truly know them.

university degree, I believed, was a passport not only to community leadership but to financial success.

leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead,

the wealthiest and most popular boy at the circumcision school.

Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees. Not only was he more knowledgeable, he was bolder and more confident. Although I intended to finish my degree and enter law school, I learned from Gaur that a degree was not in itself a guarantee of leadership and that it meant nothing unless one went out into the community to prove oneself.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made in the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

It was one of the first times that I saw that it was foolhardy to go against the masses of people. It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce.

a house blessing calls together family and friends not only to thank God for His provision of a roof over our heads, but to dedicate the home to the glory of God. A house blessing acknowledges that even our everyday life is sacramental, and our homes a holy space. Family and friends gather to seek God's protection on this home and its inhabitants, and to ask God's blessing, not just on the physical space, but on all that is said and done within its walls.

When Salt People show up, the 'flavor' of the situation improves

Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up.

Anna hung up none the wiser but feeling better for having talked with like-minded people.

buildings ravaged by the violence of those who lived there, reflecting it back on the residents. Homes of people too mentally ill to care for themselves or their property.

Women could sit with grief, hold its hands, watch it pour from the eyes of friends and children, lie down beside it and help it to rest. Their delicate strength would weave a net strong as spun steel, keep the widow Castle from hitting bottom.