Quotes About Community

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

Your community is your survival.

The key to Judaism's survival is the emotional attachment to the religion.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.

Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.

For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

Who lives if India doesn't survive?

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless of whatever political meaning it may have or evolve to.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.