Quotes About Community

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

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Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Il mediterraneo non è solo geografia. Non è solo storia. Ma è più di una semplice appartenenza.

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.

Move north. Reach the border. Find a coyote. Get across. Take a bus to Denver. There will be churches there. Libraries, internet access, immigrant communities. People willing to help. For now just move north, move north. Get Luca out of danger.

In the morning, a local resident drapes a hose over the garden wall so the migrants can brush their teeth, wet their faces, and fill their canteens. A contingent of older ladies walks the tracks, passing out blessings with homemade bagged sandwiches and pickles. A guard from the hut calls Luca over and passes him a grape lollipop through the chain-link fence.

At worst, we perceive them as an invading mob of resource-draining criminals, and, at best, a sort of helpless, impoverished, faceless brown mass, clamoring for help at our doorstep. We seldom think of them as our fellow human beings. People with the agency to make their own decisions, people who can contribute to their own bright futures, and to ours, as so many generations of oft-reviled immigrants have done before them.

Luis Alberto Urrea, Óscar Martínez, Sonia Nazario, Jennifer Clement, Aída Silva Hernández, Rafael Alarcón, Valeria Luiselli, and Reyna Grande.

and Soledad and I would gather herbs and dry them and bundle them for Papi to sell in the market when he had a day off, and that's how we passed our days.

arms raised. "Me, me!" she says. "Good, I need lots of helpers!" "I heard he was a

También de este lado hay sueños.

It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. If love comes from the heart, where does hate come from? Children aren't born knowing how to hate. They must be taught. Therefore, the lesson is simple. Let's not teach our children hatred and prejudice, because what they don't know won't hurt them — or others. PEACE IS PATRIOTIC.

that line his abuela's street. He's

San Pedro Sula: second-largest city in Honduras, a million and a half people, murder capital of the world. Out loud, he says, "Ah, you are Honduran." "No," Rebeca corrects him. "Ch'orti'." Luca makes his face into a question. "Indian," she explains. "My people are Ch'orti'." Luca nods, even though he doesn't really understand the difference.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

we now live in a society

We are all Americans

Epoca maselor este de asemenea era omului izolat. Nu este deloc imposibil sa ii urmeze intr-o zi era manastirilor, a comunitatilor si a ordinelor.

Mais la société n'est pas davantage apte à canaliser les pulsions agressives qui caractérisent la puberté, car les réponses institutionnelles ont elles-mêmes disparu : le scoutisme, les patronages, les mouvements d'action catholique, les mouvements de jeunesse laïques, les Jeunesses musicales de France… Que reste-t-il de tout cela aujourd'hui ? Le service militaire lui-même a disparu ; or il représentait une sorte de rite initiatique au moment où le jeune