Quotes About Community

We rule over gangs—Crips and Bloods and Trinitarios and Latin Lords. Dominicans Don't Play, Broad Day Shooters, Gun Clappin' Goonies, Goons on Deck (seems to be a theme), From Da Zoo, Money Stackin' High, Mac Baller Brims. Folk Nation, Insane Gangster Crips, Addicted to Cash, Hot Boys, Get Money Boys.

I certainly dont write to exclude anyone.

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

When Los Angeles was founded in 1781—as a city of angels—by a group of eleven families, it seemed to throw out a welcome mat to people of color. After all, of that founding group—forty-four men, women, and children—twenty-six were of African descent, black or "black Spaniards," as they were sometimes called.

Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide.

Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation.

Good fences make good neighbors. - John Dortmunder

True spirituality is not trying to make ourselves spiritual through faith, but it is living out our faith in service to God and neighbor.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.

the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.

Social cohesion and volunteering encourage good citizenship

Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different. No one, grown-up or child, got away with breaking the law in Idaville.

Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Always surround yourself with people who lift you up, rather than hold you down.

What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.