Quotes About Community

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

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

I believe that the difference between Heaven and Hell is not so much the climate as the company.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. —CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

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.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

From time to time there emerged in the West voluntary communist societies. One of them was the Virginia Company in Jamestown (1607); another, New Harmony of Indiana, founded in 1825 by the British philanthropist Robert Owen. All such attempts broke down sooner or later, largely because of their inability to resolve the problem of "free riders," members who drew a full share of the community's harvest while doing little if any work.

We've learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.

The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.

Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.

Not only were these neighborhoods zoned to permit industry, even polluting industry, but the plan commission permitted taverns, liquor stores, nightclubs, and houses of prostitution to open in African American neighborhoods but prohibited these as zoning violations in neighborhoods where whites lived.

As American citizens, whatever routes we or our particular ancestors took to get to this point, we're all in this together now. Over the past few decades, we have developed euphemisms to help us forget how we, as a nation, have segregated African American citizens.

It is obvious from a glance at the . . . transit plans that an attempt is being made to eliminate the Negro and Puerto Rican ghetto areas by . . . building highways that benefit white suburbanites, facilitating their movement from the suburbs to work and back.

Rosewood Courts, Austin's Eastside project for African Americans, was built on land obtained by condemning Emancipation Park, the site of an annual festival to commemorate the abolition of slavery. The park had been privately owned by a neighborhood association the Travis County Emancipation Organization, and residents protested the condemnation of this community institution in which they took great pride. But their objects had no effect, despite the availability of other vacant land.