“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”
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The Challenge of Social Justice
“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 Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
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”
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
You can make the impossible possible
“What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.” — John Lewis Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
We must become bigger than we have been
“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.” — Haile Selassie Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
Every Successful Individual Knows…
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” — Paul Ryan Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
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