Quotes by Community If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my career, and my private self (mind, body and spirit)? then you are more likely to produce harmony in your life, over the course of your life. Stewart D. Friedman communitycareersself An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community. Stokely Carmichael communityorganizationneeds An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan Stokely Carmichael voicecommunityorganization America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street. Stuart Appleby australiacommunityamerica Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories. Sting communityhonorstories I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. Studs Terkel healthcommunityaction Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith. Sue Halpern trusting-each-othercommunitygovernment We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are. Sufjan Stevens communitytwopeople There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship. Sue Monk Kidd riskcommunitysoul Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community. Summer Rayne Oakes fashioncommunitypowerful Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency. Susan Collins emergenciescommunicationcommunity What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. Susan George communityjobsneeds Surround yourself with a loving community. Susan Harrison connectingsurround-yourselfcommunity The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’ Susan Cain communityreligiouspeople The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. Susan Sontag communitychangeinspirational What its children become, that will the community become. Suzanne La Follette educationalcommunitychildren If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them. Suzanne La Follette societycommunitytemptation There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere. Suzanne La Follette communityparentchildren One of the greatest mistakes the international community can make is to say, "Well, we will get other matters figured out and stabilized, and then we'll think about the women's rights, because that's really a grade-B kind of concern." Swanee Hunt communitymistakethinking The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future. Sylvia Ann Hewlett futurecommunitychildren«166167168169170171172173174175176»
