Quotes About Community

But the problem with the marketplaces that it dissolves communities and replaces them with consumers. Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

Comer Process, developed by Dr. James Comer of Yale University, which engages the school community in meeting the emotional, psychological, social, and academic needs of students. What

Schools need stability, adequate resources, well-prepared and experienced educators, community support, and a clear vision of what good education is.

Do we need neighborhood public schools? I believe we do ... For more than a century, they have been an essential element of our democratic institutions. We abandon them at our peril.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people. --Diane Sawyer quoted from her father

On Sunday we didn't work at all. That was the Lord's Day. As soon as we heard the drum beating, we knew it was time for church. We met at the house of Captain Myles Standish, the military leader of the colony. Then we lined up by threes and marched to church. Everybody in town was expected to go (even if they weren't church members), and the service lasted all morning. Then after lunch (which they called dinner) we went back for three more hours!

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Christians crawled out of the woodwork when crisis hit . . . Christians weren't roaches.

Dianna and Karen

The Christian is responsible to care for the hurting and the downtrodden, and should not be in the business of creating further pain.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

And he said, This schoolroom is an immense town, and in it there are a million inhabitants, and only five-and-twenty are starved to death in the streets, in the course of a year. What is your remark on that proportion? And my remark was- for I couldn't think of a better one- that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were starved , whether the others were a million, or a million million.

La fuite vers la grande ville, vers la capitale, pour vivre son homosexualité est un parcours fort classique et fort commun pour un jeune gay.

Chez nous c'est comme les bêtes, et c'est normal : on s'entraide quand on est là, et quand il y a un blessé on l'achève, dans l'intérêt de la communauté.

But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one's community back from the path of sin.