Quotes About Community

In San Francisco, racism came at you with a smile.

Because if you left the straights to handle the party, it just wasn't going to happen.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence began working like real nuns, raising money for the sick at church bingos and organizing a charity dog show featuring Shirley MacLaine as emcee.

Silence is a form of consent, and I just couldn't let the evil popular picture of David and our community stand without trying to combat it.

For a while I saw myself as an outcast from an America that had always been mine.

We came from many different places, had many different pasts, belonged to a variety of races and nationalities; but under the boiling summer sun, when shade temperatures often reached the century mark, the heat beating our backs like hammer until I felt like a nail myself, we were brothers sharing sweat, building our own Jerusalem in a desolate place.

Besides, he felt it was good policy to let some of the locals see where we lived and find out for themselves that we weren't just a bunch of crazies.

In 1891, the Indians who remained everywhere poked their heads aboveground and surveyed the desolation of their homelands and asked the question Indians had been asking since the beginning: What can we do next to survive?

As of today, on Leech Lake, like many other reservations, the tribe owns roughly 4 percent of the land within the reservation boundaries. The rest of the land is divided among county, state, federal, corporate, and private owners.

People came in wagons and on horseback from many miles around to festival-like meetings from Ashtabula to Youngstown, Massillon to Leesburg, Salem to Munson. They had tapped into the grass roots of the free-labor militancy and Christian idealism of the Western Reserve.

Given the individualism that is endemic to much of white Christianity, it will be important to regularly teach the communal nature of the Lord's Supper. If we are to be shaped toward solidarity by the Communion meal, this note will need to be sounded more clearly by preachers and teachers.

As white Christians become closer with Christians of color, we will become better interpreters of the presence of the kingdom among us. After all, despite suffering our society's racism and white supremacist assumptions, our siblings of color can still testify to the evidence of God's kingdom. Over time, we too will develop the eyes to see with greater clarity as we invite others to join in following Jesus into the kingdom he has made available.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

All our lives are hard in one way or another... But listen to me... We need to be kind to each other, and stick together, OK? This place is tough enough without you making my life a misery.

You MUST take your pills. If you fail to take your pills, every single person in your dormitory will be PUNISHED for all ETERNITY

And still at number one… "It's not just yourself you've let down, but the whole school.

nashin awa wi their een watterin. But naebody wis aw that freendly tae him. Naebody stapped for a blether.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

In real pain we have no other choice but to learn to ask for help and on a daily basis. Pain tells us we belong and cannot live forever alone or in isolation. Pain makes us understand reciprocation.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Being after, being alongside, being near [près] would appear as different modes of being, indeed of being-with.

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

When the Hawaiians appeared at Frontier Park, the audience and other cowboys paused to take them in: ornate leather chaps, long rawhide lariats, flowers around their hats, and dark skin—they were different in every way. To locals and tourists in Cheyenne, the paniolo were not just odd; they were interlopers.

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.