Quotes About Community

It's cool to be able to use comedy as a way to make people feel like they're a part of a bigger collective rather than as a way to divide.

Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.

In our own country, you can't divide people.

We are a nation divided, but that's what makes us, in a way.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

Keeping families and friends divided is unforgivable.

As our nation has become more divided, there is a resonance for a message to bring people together.

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines.

When we put country first, it's amazing that we're going to be able to bring people together instead of dividing America.

I believe that any society that allows the creation of legitimate wealth expects that the wealth be used for its benefit.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.

The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.

I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything - your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.

WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.

You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'