Quotes About Community

leadership is not power over others. Rather, leadership is power with them.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

Ralph and Mike would soon be caught up in a remarkable phenomenon that transcended prevailing regional, class, and gender boundaries. It was an intertwining cultural grapevine that united northerners and southerners who shared a common passion for rural string band music. This network proved crucial to the survival of Bill Monroe's career and even bluegrass itself.

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To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production.

this country has made a Fetish of democracy in the community, but in large part it's a guilty conscience because it's missing from the work life. And what possible excuse is there?

Community-betterment organizations like the League of United Latin American Citizens reacted to rampant discrimination against their members by insisting that society treat Latinos as whites.

We have lost our faith in the powers that brought us this far—the powers of will, imagination, effort, and community.

Unlike workers, drones are universally accepted into all colonies at almost any time.

no word in the Hebrew language of that period for "religion." Religion was not a separate, identifiable category of beliefs and activities. It was an inseparable, pervasive part of life.

All macro entities and institutions in the private, public, and voluntary sectors ultimately depend on the basic unit of families and thus should strongly support, financially and otherwise, well-conceived efforts to preserve and strengthen families and micro solutions.

There is particular hope that the Jewish community may be drawn to receive its Messiah once it clearly sees that this will not mean cultural suicide but rather the completed blooming of the vine God planted.

The people of Quinn do love a parade," she said. "The people of Quinn love ranch dressing," added Jake. "Doesn't make it right.

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The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, and the highest rate of metabolism. "Velocity" and "density" are not words many people use when describing suburbia.

Infrastructure is always hugely expensive, and there's no clear way to measure the overall future return on investment, whether it's in the form of innovation, development, or new communities or jobs. Infrastructure provides a skeleton on which to grow a new economic model. The infrastructure investments we make now will determine the kind of economy we have in the future.

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

The big idea is that what matters in determining mortality and health in a society is less the overall wealth of that society and more how evenly wealth is distributed. The more equally wealth is distributed the better the health of that society.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne, Meditation XVII

further improvements in the quality of life no longer depend on further economic growth: the issue is now community and how we relate to each other.

Legal segregation was long gone, but a strong tradition prevailed in both communities that it was best to live separately.

They have to square their well-earned reputation for kindness and hospitality with their equally well-earned reputation for violence and bigotry.

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith unveiled one of the most liberating of modern ideas—that the interests of the community could be advanced better by the self-interest than by the "benevolence" of the butcher, the baker and all the other upwardly clambering capitalists.

One person was excommunicated for buying a kosher chicken from an Ashkenazi butcher rather than a Sephardic one.