Quotes About Community

She'd decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much faith had been shattered already for Molly Cochran to allow for the possibility that it wasn't a stranger at all who'd abducted and murdered her child.

You know how sporting events are. No one questions grown-ups hanging around. It's a pedophile picnic." Rauser glanced over at me as we walked back to the car. "That's how you see kids and sports?" "You know me. Ray of sunshine.

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind', first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community; second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near; and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

Marriage, n. a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

We believe now," the children and the fathers and the mothers all said to each other with the light of faith that little lame Stephen had inspired on their faces. "We believe that Saint Nicholas will always come to us as long as there is one child alive in the village." "In the village!" echoed little Stephen. "In the whole world!" he shouted triumphantly.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

American Cancer Society

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe

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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.

Chacune de mes appartenances me relie à un grand nombre de personnes; cependant, plus les appartenances que je prends en compte sont nombreuses, plus mon identité s'avère spécifique.

La langue a vocation à demeurer le pivot de l'identité culturelle, et la diversité linguistique le pivot de toute diversité.

Le rêve secret de la plupart des migrants, c'est qu'on les prenne pour des enfants du pays.

Moi, depuis l'âge de treize ans, je me suis toujours senti, partout, un invité. Souvent accueilli à bras ouverts, parfois tout juste toléré, mais nulle part habitant de plein droit. Constamment dissemblable, mal ajusté – mon nom, mon regard, mon allure, mon accent, mes appartenances réelles ou supposées. Incurablement étranger. Sur la terre natale comme plus tard sur les terres d'exil.