Quotes About Community

isolated patches of wild land are valuable to know, as are isolated people.

Going at it alone had been my badge of honor. How foolish. I confused silence with strength.... Shutting out others is weak and grossly unfair to those around us.

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

Considers American Sign Language (ASL) to be the natural language of the Deaf culture and urges recognition of ASL as the primary language

The Chinese are a great and vital people who should not remain isolated from the international community…. It is certainly in our interest, and in the interest of peace and stability in Asia and the world, that we take what steps we can toward improved practical relations with Peking.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

sole goal of the inception stage is to achieve critical mass by cultivating a small group of highly active members in the community. This group becomes the foundation upon which to build the community. Unless a small, active, group is established it is impossible to develop a successful long-term community.

Your goal is to get these members into the habit of regularly visiting the community to see the responses to their own posts. It takes time until visiting a community becomes a habit. Until then, members need frequent reminders to participate. Automated reminders are not enough.

He may have been young, but he was from Jefferson. He had already learned that, many times, sexual predators were also quite clumsy,

the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Home is where they don't want to kill you," Jack said.

Humans need to belong. Humans have always needed tribes. Today we find tribes in family or clubs or religion. What happens when we fall out of them? I suppose, in prehistoric times, it was fatal to be cast out of a tribe, to be exiled or excommunicated from the group, away from the people we love and need. Exile from the tribe is a form of execution.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Ostin, quit calling us mutants

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality.

There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.