Quotes About Community

I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires me.

My whole family is extremely blue collar - teachers and police officers probably make up half my family. My father was a garbage man.

We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.

Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

We can't always wait on the government to sort out all issues. I think they set policies, they set the rules, but we all have a duty to help as much as we can.

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.

Invest more in policing, not less.

For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local and very personalized to communities, to cities, to legislators, and so, in that way, I think as we started looking into talking about policing, the thing that you realize is that you can't paint everything with the same brush.

There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we've been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.