Quotes About Community

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.

The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

The best ideas are common property.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

I have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.