Quotes by Community The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work. Van Jones climatecommunitycountry I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us. Van Jones communitygivingblood I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to. Van Jones communitynative-americanthinking I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry. Van Jones communitybearsthinking We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves. Van Jones fuelcommunitygarden In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable. Van Jones communitycolororganization If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, "Trump, Trump!" when they're doing it. Van Jones hijabcommunitypeople We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity. Van Jones blackcommunitypeople I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic. Vera Farmiga tacticscommunitythinking We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that. Veronika Varekova wildlifecommunitypeople To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live. Veronica Roth things-in-lifecommunitymother A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. Vicki Myron communitybeautifulpeople This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives. Veronica Roth communityleaderteacher I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out. Victoria Chang west-coastspreadcommunity I’m smiling on the inside. I feel I have a responsibility to the fashion community. Victoria Beckham fashioncommunityresponsibility If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came up with aesthetic categories. That's not what I would say. What's left are communities who make music together, or among whom music circulates. That's it. Vijay Iyer aestheticcommunitytogether I notice that Indians love to tweet about each other - will be like, yeah, go India, we're awesome, Indians are awesome, here is another example of an awesome Indian. That's a dangerous false nationalism that I am not interested in. There's a huge amount of diversity within our so-called communities; within the South Asian community, there are people who would never talk to each other. Vijay Iyer diversitycommunitypeople If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is a building of community, particularly among artists of color. This is what I learned from the example of elder African-American artists, which is where it is all coming from; to refuse to be silenced. Vijay Iyer communitycolorartist Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. Veronica Roth things-in-lifecommunityimportant I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest. Vince Gill democracyvoicecommunity«178179180181182183184185186187188»
