Quotes About Community

The chances of satisfying my renewed appetite for literary exchanges increased once I began to visit the library more frequently and make my way from the hotel to City Lights Bookstore at 261 Columbus Avenue. For all I was learning about the role its founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, had played in helping to nurture, promote, and sustain the talented souls who made the Beat Movement possible, City Lights became a kind of sacred space for me.

Community makes us all. Secret society breaks us all.

Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.

I see the power of music to connect cultures. I see it when I stand on a stage at a bluegrass festival … and I bust out into a song in Chinese, and everybody's eyes just pop wide open.

We live as Ethiopians and die as Ethiopia.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

For whatever sets in motion societal activity originates in the intimate communal living of families in the same village or hamlet, in the same region or country.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted? A

That's the funny thing about America - the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others." p 405

The bloodlines from the Mayflower hadn't trickled down to this zip code.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks, or how big the Emperor's palace happens to be.

You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had spoken; an answer from one was an answer for The Twins.

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous