Quotes About Community

When a person has work, she has income and can achieve financial self-sustainability. She can prioritize her family's health and education. Her standing in the community is lifted, and so is her confidence.

We prioritize dialogue, even in our fight with bandits and gangs.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

We must make children and families a national priority.

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

Communities across the nation play an important role in leading the way toward healthier families, and the Affordable Care Act helps make prevention an important priority for every community.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

Community stuff is always important to me, it's very important to the New Jersey Devils and the organization, so along with not just myself but the rest of the players on the team, it's always a priority to be able to give back in the best way possible.

My constituency is my top priority.

My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.

The health and safety of our neighbors and our communities should be our top priority - nothing is more important.

And so it became a priority for me to make sure that all Asian Canadians or Asian Americans or wherever you are, Asian Australians, felt like they belonged.

As Governor of New Hampshire, my top priority is the safety of our citizens.

My number one priority is the safety of our communities, and particularly the safety of our children.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.

A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as well as for communities.

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.