Quotes by Community In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. Henry Louis Gates blackcommunityclass Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism. Henry Mintzberg individualismtechnologycommunity Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large. Henry Louis Gates blackcommunityclass To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art. Herbert Gold family-lovecommunityart The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization. Herbert J. Muller communityrealizationself Community is where humility and glory touch. Henri Nouwen communitygloryhumility We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else. Henry Louis Gates african-americancommunitypeople All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit? Herbert Spencer communityresponsibilitydesire I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem to describe a collective in terms of consumers or clients. It never sees an audience or a community as part of the process. And that's something I'm quite proud of, even if the music is crap. Herbert communityspacethinking You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. Henry Ward Beecher richpoorcommunity The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community. Henry Ford communitymenpeople Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health. Hermann Biggs communityimportantnatural In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or "We could use you." He said, "Maybe our community can offer you a home." I visited several times, then resigned from Harvard and went to live with the community for a year. I loved it! I didn't have much to do. I wasn't pastor or anything. I was just a friend of the Community. Henri Nouwen communityhomeyears The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. Henri Nouwen communitylonelinessgiving Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life. Henri Nouwen communitystrugglepeople I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough. Henry David Thoreau communitywould-bemen If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives. Henri Nouwen essentialscommunitywant Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing. Henri Nouwen essentialscommunitysolitude The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. Henry Ward Beecher newspaperscommunitystates I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words. Henri Nouwen inabilitycommunityhypocrisy«6768697071727374757677»
