Community Quotes
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Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.
Sandra Cisneros
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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
Alan Chambers
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Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.
Sarah Kate Ellis
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The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.
Adi Shamir
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From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
Kevin James
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Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.
Nicole Oresme
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Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.
Charles Barron
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Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
Lily Rabe
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Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
Paul Pierce
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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
Charles A. Reich
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In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.
Carmen Lawrence
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I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and being able to provide services to those that are in need is very strong moral reason to provide services for the underserved.
Raul Ruiz
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People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices.
Alfie Kohn
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The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.
Nyla Ali Khan
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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
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill
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It’s about community and it’s also about commitment. If you’re bringing in 40- to 50-percent more new people each time, that says there’s an appetite for what we’re doing and a shared level of concern.
Nancy Pfotenhauer
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We support regional generation, particularly for nuclear. It's just a large investment. We think it's something a community comes around to make those investments work, and South Carolina is very committed to nuclear generation.
Lynn Good
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If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
Raymond Chandler
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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
Ken Livingstone
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Belief followed by strategy and culture moves people to community.
Ed Stetzer
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Calling the Guantanamo prison “a gated timeshare community in the Northern Caribbean.
Barry W. Lynn
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus
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AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.
Sarah Paulson