“The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed – it just doesn’t make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn’t make any difference what language we speak. It doesn’t make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn’t make anyContinue reading “We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together”
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an inescapable network of mutuality
“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am whatContinue reading “an inescapable network of mutuality”
We are a community
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: “We can move mountains.” — Jimmy Carter
The Warmth of Community
“It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to…the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility…and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children’s future.” — Robert F. Kennedy
The Value of the other people within my community
“Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people – the extended family – the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.” — LammanContinue reading “The Value of the other people within my community”
The Woman Power of This Nation
“The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.” Coretta Scott King Read more at:Continue reading “The Woman Power of This Nation”
Creating Community with Food
Strength in the Differences
“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” ― Ani DiFranco
Create Stable Communities
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Glory
When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word….”glory.” — M. Scott Peck
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