Quotes by Community There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. Walter Lippmann communitymeanlying Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it. Wanda Urbanska libraryrole-modelscommunity I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay. Wanda Sykes blackgaycommunity Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions. Wangari Maathai communityfightingtwo It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values. Wangari Maathai communitydonespiritual I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. Warren Christopher communitycitieswant A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well Warren Buffett newscommunityimportant I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community. Wayne Jacobsen communityflowreal First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. Warren Buffett wallqualitycommunity Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals. Wayne Thiebaud independentcommunityopportunity The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. Wendell Berry carecommunityage We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. Wendell Berry communitygovernmentdoubt The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means. Wendell Berry politicalcommunitymean A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy") Wendell Berry communityracismspiritual It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy a good product than a bad one. Do not buy anything you don't need. Do as much as you can for yourself. If you cannot do something for yourself, see if you have a neighbor who can do it for you. Do everything you can to see that your money stays as long as possible in the local community. Wendell Berry environmentalcommunitylong Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households. Wendell Berry communitysoulheaven A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy. Wendell Berry mutual-helpcommunityhelping The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. Wendell Berry communitylanduse Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community. Wendell Pierce individualcommunityart The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack. Wendell Phillips libertycommunitydoe«181182183184185186187188189190191»
