Community Quotes

"I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"The idea of the European community is never face a war again"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power"

Major Owens, Politician

"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play"

Danny Glover, Actor

"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970"

John McGahern, Writer

"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community"

Alan Autry, Actor

"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us"

James De La Vega, Artist

"Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy"

Brad Henry, Politician

"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community"

Sam Walton, Businessman

"In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do"

Judith Light, Actress

"The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in"

Judith Light, Actress

"Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper"

Jean Vanier, Philosopher

"And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

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