I think it is important
that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral
and community values. -- Marian
Wright Edelman
*
The
challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make
our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. --
Marian
Wright Edelman
"I
am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We
have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall
continue to do so." -- Tewolde
Egziabher
*
"With
all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can
only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure
progress towards a civilized peaceful community." -- Albert
Einstein
Our
task must be to free ourselves... by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
-- Albert
Einstein
A human
being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time
and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated
from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion
is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection
for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and
a foundation for inner security -- Albert
Einstein
*
This
world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and
be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. -- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
What
do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? --
George Eliot
We
now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a
few at the expense of the majority -- Irene
Fernandez
*
...the
world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work...We’re
all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another
family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can. -- Ralph
Fiennes
*
“For
a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern
for each other.” -- Millard
Fuller
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing
is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that
symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving.
This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces
new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there’s
a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the
ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups. --
Eduardo Galeano
*
"We
have an obligation to ensure that donors do not become isolated from the needs
of the public and the community." -- Tracy
Gary
*
"Average
people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based
on common sense, determination, persistence and patience." ~ Lois
Gibbs
The
first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to
society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. -- Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
*
“Whatever
community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial
justice … you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the
community that you never get in any other way.” -- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
..the
United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United
States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international
community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the
rule of law and respect for human dignity. -- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
*
Genuine
politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing
to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving
the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are
moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the
whole. -- Vaclav Havel
Every
individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether
he chooses to be so or not. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
*
We can dream together a dream of a better world, an ever-renewing, organic-based
earth-community. I believe we can achieve a large part of it in our lifetime.
~ Randy Hayes
*
“Without
community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important
to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves
grow and develop.” -- Dorothy
Height
The impersonal hand of government
can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. -- Hubert
Humphrey
*
“A
world community can only exist with world communication, which means something
more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common
understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.” -- Robert
Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)
“A
community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
-- Henrik Ibsen
*
When
people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate
not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting
Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks
to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while
promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring." -- Wes
Jackson
While
the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were
so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
-- Lady Bird Johnson
The
American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right
to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and
in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity
and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors.
It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which
comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at
the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
*
How
do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance
-- the one value that is indispensable in creating community. -- Barbara
Jordan
We
must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the
belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national
endeavor. It can be done. -- Barbara
Jordan
