Quotes About Community

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

The Conservative Party must be a party for all of its members.

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.