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Quotes About Community

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
~ W. H. Davies
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
~ T. D. Jakes
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
~ Jim Harrison
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.
~ Noam Chomsky
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
~ Jane Jacobs
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
~ Immortal Technique
For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.
~ Sheila Watt-Cloutier
This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
~ Lynn Swann
The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.
~ Eugene Rivers
God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
~ Dallas Willard
All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.
~ Robert Johnson
Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.
~ Fred Willard
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
~ Booker T. Washington
A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.
~ Edna Buchanan
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
~ K.P. Yohannan
Where the women go, the culture goes.
~ Phylicia Rashad
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
~ Dorothy Cotton
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
~ Amanda Palmer
People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
~ Haki R. Madhubuti
More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.
~ Peter Diamandis
Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.
~ John Howard