Quotes About Community

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

no society is renewed from the top and every society is renewed from the bottom.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

There must be, not a balance of power but a community power; not organized rivalries but a organized, common peace.

This land is your land, this land is my land,From California to the New York island,From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters,This land was made for you and me.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

When my ma went off a old woman called Aunt Emmaline kep' me. (She kep' all de orphunt chillun an' dem who's mammas had been sent off to de breedin' quarters. When dem women had chillun dey brung 'em an' let somebody lak Aunt Emmaline raise em.)

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.

All Men Are Brothers)

Lo scempio che san fare le femmine, manco i corvi ... Stasera te le ritrovi all'assemblea di sezione con certe muste che fai meglio a guardarti le unghie se non vuoi che te la grattino loro la rogna. Stanno tutte ingruppate, che paiono una cosa sola, un mostro bertoccuto e chioccio, con certe grinfie dritte e puntute come ferri da maglia.

What made me happiest was using what I'd learned to do something of value to society.

In those clubs, I learned that everything my town had taught me about race was absolutely wrong. The memories of that time in my life on Auburn Avenue are great ones, and they're all mine.

I was the kid who always thought I was chickenshit, and I had been terrified for most of my life. In treatment, people were suddenly loving me for me. Unconditionally. I had told them the goriest, most horrible stuff about myself … and they hugged me for it. This was what I had been looking for forever— a place to fit in.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans.

Jazz is democracy in music.

Jazz shows us how to find a groove with other people, how to hold on to it, and how to develop it.

In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.