Quotes About Community

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

She had never inadvertently hit on a straight woman, or misidentified a lesbian in her life. Of course she usually also only dated on Goodreads, where most people had social media identify their gender preferences. However,

Let the Rabbit see the warren

Share your wisdom with everyone! -Aaron Jhinkoo

God knows what happens in anime club

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance.

Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they're not true, they end up turning people into who they are.

Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.

If you don't share your stories with other people. do they even count? If you don't share your stories, do they even need an ending? I know, it's that stupid if a tree falls in the forest sort of question, but I mean it.

When you believe something that you don't have solid proof of, that's faith, right? But faith is hard to do alone. You need others to believe the same things you do, or else you're gonna go a little nutty, aren't you.

There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal right of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination." New York Times, 1975

If you are ever sad and think that life is hard, remember that you are not alone...

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Yet I lay in bed that night imagining what it would be like not to feel such an alien in England, to be able to live with someone to whom I could speak casually about things without having to give long explanations, what it would be like not to live in England at all, but here, in a crowd, rather than always being and feeling on the edges of everything.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.