Community Quotes
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That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.
Cecil Williams -
Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.
Adolf Hitler
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There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
Jason Alexander -
Lack of specificity around stakeholder identity remains a serious obstacle to the further development of stakeholder theory and its adoption in actual practice by business managers. Nowhere is this shortcoming more evident than in stakeholder theory's treatment of the constituency known as 'community.
R. Edward Freeman -
We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.
Van Jones -
My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.
Ann McKee -
Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.
Quentin Tarantino -
I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
Sandra Cisneros -
Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.
Kimbal Musk -
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
Ken Livingstone -
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
Mother Teresa -
You [the Gallaudet students have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.
Tom Harkin -
The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.
Ed Murray
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
William Hazlitt -
Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
Walt Whitman -
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
William L. Jenkins -
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
Barbara Gittings -
The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.
Aja Brown -
There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].
Vladimir Putin
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Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.
Aileen Lee -
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
M. Scott Peck -
The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
Donald Miller -
I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.
Harold Evans