Quotes About Community

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.