Community Quotes

‘We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.’ – Mitch Albom

‘The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.’ – Max Carver

‘Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.’ – Rollo May

‘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

‘The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.’ – Dean Ornish

‘I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo

‘It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.’ – Teyonah Parris

‘Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.’ – Angela Merkel

‘The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.’ – Robert Peel

‘Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.’ – Paul Ryan

‘I’m a reflection of the community.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘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

‘It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.’ – Stokely Carmichael

‘Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.’ – Aretha Franklin

‘I’m very humbled and honored. I’m very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!’ – Jeremy Lin

‘For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.’ – Joe Biden

‘A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘My mom was my rock, my confidant and my best friend. She was an elementary school teacher who worked with students with disabilities and she lived every day giving back to her family and her community.’ – Matt Barnes

‘There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.’ – Lady Gaga

‘What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.’ – John Lewis

‘We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.’ – Haile Selassie

‘The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.’ – Mark Hyman

‘Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.’ – Betsy Hodges

‘I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it’s just another normal.’ – Lea Salonga

‘The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.’ – Oliver Tambo

‘It’s one thing to be a part of an organization. It’s another thing to be a part of the community.’ – Travis Kelce

‘One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.’ – Henry Adams

‘A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don’t realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.’ – Nyle DiMarco

‘I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.’ – Erin Gruwell

‘Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.’ – Anthony Carmona

‘I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch ‘Titanic,’ and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.’ – Bill Hader

‘I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you have to follow your heart. Believe that you have a unique group of talents and abilities that are going to allow you to accomplish something in an area that interests you. Work at that and try to make some kind of contribution to your community.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Youth theatre isn’t just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It’s for everyone; it’s about a community, it’s about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills – not just acting but all the other sides – working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.’ – Sam Heughan

‘Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.’ – Al Jarreau

‘No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.’ – Brad Henry

‘A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.’ – Gustavo Dudamel

‘The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.’ – Aristotle

‘We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community – and then tear them down. It’s really that simple.’ – Tarana Burke

‘The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.’ – Howard Thurman

‘In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture.’ – Ben Sasse

‘When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.’ – Nick Saban

‘I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

‘Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘I didn’t ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I’m wrong about this, I guess I’ll become a bum.’ – Hal Lindsey

‘Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘We all have a gift; we all have a passion – it’s just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.’ – Angela Bassett

‘Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.’ – Jane Fonda

‘The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.’ – Paul Bloom

‘I come from a family where we were taught to love and respect every community and religion.’ – Manisha Koirala

‘It takes an incredibly special person to be willing to put his or her life on the line for the community, and we owe it to our law enforcement heroes to do whatever we can to make their work safer.’ – Christopher A. Wray

‘If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.’ – Lindsay Fox

‘A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.’ – Raja Krishnamoorthi

‘In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone – absolutely everyone – in the Douglas Community was forever altered.’ – Emma Gonzalez

‘The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.’ – Shane Claiborne

‘I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘If we don’t take Tullamore, no other community will.’ – Catherine McAuley

‘My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live – I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don’t evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.’ – H. G. Wells

‘A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.’ – A. Philip Randolph

‘Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our ‘infrastructure’ – highways, buildings, power plants, etc.’ – Kathi Appelt

‘In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.’ – Barack Obama

‘Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you’re part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.’ – Greg Boyle

‘We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.’ – Carl Sagan

‘No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.’ – Menachem Begin

‘I found an agent midway through my year-long run at ‘Grease’ and just started to audition. I fortunately booked ‘South Pacific’ six months after ‘Grease’ was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.’ – Laura Osnes

‘One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.’ – Mario J. Molina

‘If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.’ – Bobby Seale

‘All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture – community, hard work, perseverance, respect – contribute directly to our success.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘It is our hope that Palestine will soon be welcomed to the community of nations with full – in my opinion – full membership in the United Nations.’ – Mwai Kibaki

‘From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group… it all started opening up.’ – Kevin James

‘I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.’ – George Lucas

‘I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.’ – Benazir Bhutto

‘Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.’ – Nancy Greene

‘A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.’ – Aldo Leopold

‘Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.’ – Catherine Cortez-Masto

‘I’m not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one’s skin color or one’s gender, I think it should be done based on one’s need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he’s very valuable. But while that’s happening, Rome is burning within the black community.’ – Jim Brown

‘I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.’ – Ann Richards

‘The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.’ – Josh Fox

‘A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.’ – Rishi Sunak

‘I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.’ – Howard Schultz

‘Redemption and rehabilitation for formerly incarcerated individuals is best achieved when they are able to reintegrate back into the community as productive members.’ – Alex Padilla

‘Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.’ – Alveda King

‘Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.’ – Samantha Power

‘I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of ‘Vanity Fair’… is only good for the trans community. I can’t imagine that the more we talk about this that it’s not just doing everybody a lot of good.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he’s also a community person.’ – Chance The Rapper

‘The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.’ – Plato

‘When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.’ – Earl Warren

‘If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.’ – Tony Cardenas

‘I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.’ – Russell Simmons

‘When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn’t aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn’t something anyone had done yet.’ – Tony Hawk

‘Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.’ – Steven Biko

‘I showed that once again a guy from the ‘favela,’ from the community, it taking over the world.’ – Charles Oliveira

‘The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I’m quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.’ – Daddy Yankee

‘I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.’ – Sarah Palin

‘A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.’ – James H. Douglas, Jr.

‘Things will only improve when the people – all of us – say to authorities, ‘I will hold you responsible.’ We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.” – Elayne Boosler

‘Not only does the title ‘We’re Here’ highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.’ – Bob the Drag Queen

‘The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.’ – Ken Robinson

‘Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.’ – Leroy Hood

‘After a semester, I left Cal Poly to attend a local community college – Palomar in San Marcos. It was the best move. I worked, saved money and eventually transferred to a different state school. In all, I went to college for three years.’ – Taylor Tomlinson

‘Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘We look at every project as a way to connect with our community and ask ourselves if it will entertain and empower them.’ – Maverick Carter

‘Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don’t really fit the preppy boater kind of style.’ – Christian Siriano

‘We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.’ – Dorothy Day

‘If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.’ – Nancy Friday

‘I think the Congolese music is more important in the African community that Rwandan. You know, Rwanda is not musically really important in Africa. It’s interesting, of course. But Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it.’ – Stromae

‘In every community there are poor and unemployed people.’ – Mayawati

‘That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.’ – Snoop Dogg

‘A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.’ – Cameron Sinclair

‘The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.’s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.’ – Burgess Owens

‘In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn’t drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.’ – Willie Mays

‘I do not know all the history behind our courageous L.G.B.T.Q. community, but I am eager to learn and to help continue the fight for equality and acceptance.’ – Carl Nassib

‘Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That’s what life’s all about.’ – Andrew Shue

‘I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven’t sat in the corners of power.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘The ‘New Testament’, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it’s possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it’s a white man’s sport. Or we think that since other black people don’t play it, so why should I play it.’ – Mookie Betts

‘I just have to be myself. I’m not perfect, and I’m going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.’ – Laverne Cox

‘I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘Being around my local community, seeing how many pubs are closing down there, it hurts me.’ – Jimmy Bullard

‘Education is not a tool for development – individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.’ – Nita Ambani

‘My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng

‘In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.’ – Roger Wilkins

‘In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one’s immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.’ – Albert Bandura

‘We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can’t feel safe in their community. It’s wrong! It’s wrong!’ – Jan Brewer

‘Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.’ – Julie Foudy

‘The paradigm of the ‘Aquarian Conspiracy’ sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society… The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.’ – Kate Brown

‘To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It’s the only way to avoid more Fergusons.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.’ – Chris Rock

‘My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.’ – Colin Farrell

‘Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.’ – Angelica Ross

‘Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.’ – Uzodinma Iweala

‘The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Within the Intelligence Community, CIA is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. Technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries’ secrets – even their intent.’ – Gina Haspel

‘I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn’t go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.’ – Charlie Hunnam

‘I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others.’ – Steve Nash

‘Young Asian people who come up to me have a certain vibration, and I receive it, and I understand it, and I feel emotional just talking about it. I’m here for you. And I’ll continue doing everything I can to fill something that I know you need right now that we don’t yet have as a community.’ – Sandra Oh

‘Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘Everything we do, every decision we make, is to ensure the best possible Airbnb experience for our community and grow the love.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.’ – Brooks Adams

‘When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That’s when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘After globalisation, one country can’t destabilise another country, as the international community will not forget it.’ – Rajnath Singh

‘I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all – specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community – great schools, public safety, etc.’ – Daya

‘As a community, Silicon Valley must adopt principles that reflect our abhorrence toward sexual harassment – and it is these principles that must guide our collective behavior.’ – Meena Harris

‘Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.’ – Sam Walton

‘If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That’s our job. Raising children and helping the community, that’s preparing for the next generation.’ – Dikembe Mutombo

‘At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.’ – Timothy Radcliffe

‘I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we’re a community, not just a series of commodities.’ – Brian Chesky

‘The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.’ – Richard Hayne

‘It doesn’t have to take a Portland Trail Blazer or a professional basketball player to do good things in the community. You can work at a bank or work at a 7-Eleven.’ – Rasheed Wallace

‘I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.’ – Lauren Jauregui

‘We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.’ – Dan Gable

‘Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don’t have jobs, it’ll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘I’m very proud of being Italian-American, but people don’t realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who’s the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.’ – Chazz Palminteri

‘When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It’s community management. It’s making sure the marketplace is in balance – the right amount of buyers and sellers.’ – Jeff Jordan

‘The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.’ – Albert Camus

‘People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.’ – Joshua Oppenheimer

‘The building block of every community is family.’ – Paul Singer

‘Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants’ civilization, you are part of the group; you don’t live for yourself alone.’ – Bernard Werber

‘I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.’ – Gina Rodriguez

‘For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.’ – Erwin Schrodinger

‘The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.’ – Sam Houston

‘My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime.’ – Betty White

‘I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.’ – Eve Ensler

‘To know a community is to know its food.’ – Gil Marks

‘I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.’ – John Ensign

‘My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation – often elevated loneliness – to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.’ – William James

‘Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.’ – Katie Porter

‘Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.’ – Larry Harvey

‘Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community’s many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.’ – Nydia Velazquez

‘The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I’ve got family and friends over here, but more than that, there’s a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.’ – Damian Marley

‘Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.’ – Mandy Moore

‘I’m obviously fighting for my community simply because I’m trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that’s my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.’ – Mj Rodriguez

‘I’ve been visiting community centres and schools for 20-plus years and what I’ve seen is that kids are kids, they want to learn. They learn from experiences, they ask questions when they don’t know something.’ – Adam Goodes

‘You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.’ – Toni Morrison

‘The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.’ – Andrew Yang

‘The idea of service leads to community.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.’ – Alfred Adler

‘You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.’ – Al Smith

‘You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren’t trying to win, what’s the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You’ve got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.’ – Gary Zukav

‘The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.’ – Ed Smith

‘The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.’ – Dallas Willard

‘I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.’ – Magic Johnson

‘Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.’ – Hamdi Ulukaya

‘I like to go home and get involved in my community.’ – Marshawn Lynch

‘It’s kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That’s exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It’s lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.’ – Paul Newman

‘We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

‘I will continue my work to shepherd in this important societal change… In addition to working on AI myself, I will also explore new ways to support all of you in the global AI community so that we can all work together to bring this AI-powered society to fruition.’ – Andrew Ng

‘Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they’re insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on ‘Community’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’ – they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.’ – Issa Rae

‘Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.’ – Brigham Young

‘Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.’ – Viktor Orban

‘I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for the ‘Fortnite’ Community.’ – Ninja

‘We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.’ – Colin Powell

‘My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.” – Joe Biden

‘Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.’ – Tony Finau

‘When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.’ – Michael Schumacher

‘HBCUs have been a bedrock of the Black community since their founding, evolving into institutions of prodigious scholarship and activism, and educating African-Americans nationwide.’ – Jaime Harrison

‘As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law.’ – Stephane Hessel

‘I’m still the community college kid with immigrant parents.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘In the 1990s, it’s OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It’s acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke… about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.’ – Sam Kinison

‘People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘We should judge by talent and work not by community or caste.’ – Nana Patekar

‘The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you’ve got to do that. But you mustn’t create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness… devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.’ – Patrice Motsepe

‘The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.’ – Yitzhak Shamir

‘The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.’ – Karl Jaspers

‘Selena is my angel. She is my biggest inspiration. Being from San Antonio, Texas, I really feel that connection to her because she had a lot of performances and a lot of her most iconic performances in San Antonio. Back in my hometown, we love her. We all, as a community, celebrate her and adore her. We keep her memory alive.’ – Ally Brooke

‘When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.’ – Lawrence Wright

‘You have to think about why you’re asking an audience to come to the theater. It’s not that they should come because it’s good for them, because it’s the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get… It’s about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.’ – Diane Paulus

‘Stay strong. Stay true to yourself and to who you are because there is community out there. It may not be in your town or perhaps even in your family, but you are wanted and you are loved and there are places in the world where you will be safe and supported.’ – Emma Walton Hamilton

‘What is important to me is that I’m not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I’m able to make my own decisions according to what’s best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn’t depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.’ – Katie Hill

‘Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in ’71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.’ – Vint Cerf

‘I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and – at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together – that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Gay people – generally speaking – have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.’ – Rachel Maddow

‘The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.’ – Lu Wei

‘A lot of times I’ve reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn’t have nobody to help them when they were down and out.’ – Marsha P. Johnson

‘As a farmer, I understand firsthand the challenging circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic has created within our agriculture community.’ – Mike Parson

‘The first step in community organization is community disorganization.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘From volunteer emergency responders in our rural communities to those on the front lines in more populated areas, our public safety community deserves access to the tools they need most.’ – Kay Ivey

”The Firebird’ just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world.’ – Misty Copeland

‘I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the ’60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the ’60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.’ – Eric Topol

‘What makes eBay successful – the real value and the real power at eBay – is the community. It’s the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.’ – Pierre Omidyar

‘Let me appeal to the consciences of many silent, responsible citizens of the white community who know that a victory for democracy in Jackson will be a victory for democracy everywhere.’ – Medgar Evers

‘If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other’s problems.’ – John Mellencamp

‘Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.’ – John W. Gardner

‘We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.’ – Alan Bennett

‘I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.’ – Gary Peters

‘I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.’ – Anita Hill

‘I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community.’ – Tim Murphy

‘Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community – all this coming together – this is a wonderful city.’ – Richard M. Daley

‘It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.’ – Gary Cooper

‘Stereotypical and hurtful tropes about Jews are widely accepted in the African American community.’ – Jemele Hill

‘If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy, and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.’ – Henry Cloud

‘Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a ‘third place,’ which is not their idea; it’s the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.’ – Naomi Klein

‘I’m open about having bipolar disorder. I’m open about being of mixed race. I’m open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it’s about more than being a role model for any specific community.’ – Halsey

‘Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy – it’s a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘I was a curious child. I’d debate with anyone who came to the door – people from the Islamic community… Jehovah’s Witnesses… anyone.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.’ – David Novak

‘I think the word ‘twink’ is pejorative. There’s something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.’ – Olly Alexander

‘There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community – the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress – not to seek their approval, to inform.’ – Michael Hayden

‘In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘We’re losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person’s mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘The 21st century for the black community is about building human capital. That is the undone business. That is the unmet need. That is the completion of the civil rights mission.’ – Amy Wax

‘Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.’ – Barack Obama

‘I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.’ – Amy Waldman

‘We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.’ – John Lewis

‘The world is a global economy. I thought, ‘It’s a bummer we don’t have a unifying currency.’ Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That’s really exciting.’ – Adam Draper

‘If you work hard at anything, you’re going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is when you have something you really love to do and you can integrate that into your work life. I feel like it’s a real privilege that I get to do something that is good for my community and good for the world. But it’s also pleasurable for me.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘You can’t raise kids alone, you can’t heal alone… you really need a community.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.’ – Lee Child

‘All the time, there was the weight of my community’s expectations on my shoulders.’ – Nina Simone

‘The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.’ – Julia Ward Howe

‘I hear, ‘But why do poor people make such bad decisions?’ But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They’re not financially illiterate: they’re constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.’ – Ann Cotton

‘America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.’ – Sheila Jackson Lee

‘I was inadvertently raised in the ‘gay community.’ I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.’ – Darren Criss

‘You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the field as well in being a positive person and getting good vibes out to the community.’ – Israel Folau

‘Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.’ – David Sanborn

‘I still love gaming and the gaming community.’ – Zoe Quinn

‘For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment – the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.’ – Roger Scruton

‘Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.’ – Stuart Hall

‘Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.’ – Charlie Byrd

‘YouTube is a free service that is extremely easy to use. There are no downloads, and hundreds of audio and video formats are instantly converted to Flash, which makes it fast and easy for the community to watch and share video.’ – Steve Chen

‘It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.’ – Jeremy Bentham

‘Every community should have a superhero. And the truth is, for many of us in the Asian community, we didn’t grow up with that.’ – Simu Liu

‘I see dance as glue for a community.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It’s my identity in many ways.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘I say, ‘I’m bi, my love knows no gender,’ and the straight community says, ‘Oh right, that’s just a cover-up – you’re gay!’ And the gay community says, ‘Yeah right, that’s just a cover-up – you’re gay.’ They both want to push me gay.’ – Andy Dick

‘The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson

‘There were so few examples of Asian or Asian-American lead characters on American TV or even in the movies. And the ones that have existed for so long were either stereotypical or offensive in some way, or just not reflective of the lives of people in the community.’ – Randall Park

‘I’ve spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I’m an academic. Being an academic means I don’t wield power over person, place or thing. I don’t command armies; I don’t lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I’ve been in the newspapers since I was about 15 – not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I’ve always been who I am.’ – Killer Mike

‘I wanted to show the community you can build something here without having to raid taxpayers’ dollars. What better way to show the community what we’re all about, as a welcome to come to the Institute of Contemporary Art and be a part of what we’re doing here?’ – Norman Braman

‘Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.’ – John McGahern

‘Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘It creates community when you talk about private things.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.’ – Edmund Burke

‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘Because it’s not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.’ – Bernice Weissbourd

‘As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.’ – Kamala Harris

‘With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘I’m very focused on giving back, investing, and growing my community.’ – Richelieu Dennis

‘I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I’m not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it’s the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.’ – Olivia Colman

‘I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren’t a lot of jobs.’ – Jessica Lynch

‘When one person’s livelihood changes, it can impact an entire family, then a whole community.’ – Tae Yoo

‘After my arrival in Russia, I saw that there is a large community of boxers. I also felt appreciated in Russia. Maybe even a lot more than I was valued and appreciated in my own country.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.’ – Erik Brynjolfsson

‘If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you’re active in your community, there’s nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.’ – Meg Whitman

”Selma’ is a story about voice – the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn’t just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands – millions, I should say – of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘One of the reasons I moved back to Brooklyn is to get to hang out with the guys I’ve known since we were 12, 13 years old. Having that sense of community is incredibly important to me.’ – Romany Malco

‘I think Edward Sharpe’s music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.’ – Alex Ebert

‘The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn’t know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.’ – Lloyd Bentsen

‘If your support the community, they will support you.’ – Jerry Greenfield

‘The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.’ – Greg Boyle

‘The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.’ – Tom Perez

‘I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere… Being a human being is what truly counts. That’s where you’ll find me.’ – Annie Lennox

‘In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.’ – Johnny Isakson

‘We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.’ – Stephanie Land

‘In the urban community, the church doesn’t just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.’ – Tony Evans

‘Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.’ – Anthony Albanese

‘MaxCoin is competing for the crypto buck, if you will. So is Bitcoin, so is Dogecoin. Alt-coins are proving to be formidable because there’s a solid community behind it, there’s a use for it, and it’s got a great market capitalisation. I think that’s going to be a winner.’ – Max Keiser

‘In a small town, residents don’t wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community – and this nation.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it’s also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it’s positive or negative, as long as it’s three dimensional.’ – Justin Lin

‘I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.’ – Samuel L. Jackson

‘I don’t look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘I’d always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.’ – Naomi Scott

‘Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.’ – Jon Johansen

‘I won’t compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It’s a small, close-knit music community that you can’t find anywhere else.’ – Kim Carnes

‘If you’re in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can’t imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.’ – Will Smith

‘Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Something I’ve always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they’d be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.’ – Lynn Coady

‘For me, it’s the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It’s a basic form of intimacy in a community.’ – Lidia Bastianich

‘As a former police officer, I have long advocated that it is not only the job of the NYPD to make our communities safe. I have also stated that it is not solely the role of ACS to fight child abuse. The community at large must do their share in with these important initiatives.’ – Eric Adams

‘If you make – not have – $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I’m willing to put that on the table.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.’ – Julie Bishop

‘There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?’ – Antonio Guterres

‘A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.’ – Otto Bauer

‘I think if I was a postman I’d be quite respected in my community. The postman is always respected.’ – Naughty Boy

‘Chris Kirkpatrick and I were in college in choir together; we sang at our community college. I’m partially the reason why Chris even got into being in a boy band with *NSYNC.’ – Howie Dorough

‘Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.’ – Winona LaDuke

”Fortnite’ has, I think, the most positive gamer community that’s ever emerged from a game at this scale. I think it’s partly because of the great community and partly because of the tone set by the game.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.’ – Gregg Sulkin

‘I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.’ – Tony Greig

‘Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.’ – Lady Bird Johnson

‘Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.’ – Pat Brown

‘We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. 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

‘The Church is or should go back to being a community of God’s people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.’ – Pope Francis

‘Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.’ – Joshua Ferris

‘In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there’s no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.’ – Dan Hill

‘I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It’s what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.’ – Ali Krieger

‘As the president of a university community of nearly 15,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, I take very seriously my responsibility to keep our campus safe in an increasingly dangerous world. The concealed carry policy has worked well for us.’ – Jerry Falwell, Jr.

‘The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.’ – Naftali Bennett

‘Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process – green plants growing on regenerating soil.’ – Allan Savory

‘A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.’ – Robert M. Hutchins

‘Journalism is about results. It’s about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.’ – Anas Aremeyaw Anas

‘I became the face of a leading personal injury firm, and popularised the catchphrase ‘Don’t delay, Claim Today.’ One of their adverts was targeted at the Pakistani and Indian community and became extremely popular as I appeared in it next to The King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan.’ – Reham Khan

‘So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?’ – Ray Dalio

‘I don’t like Mitt Romney. I wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney in a million years. Mitt Romney is no ally of the gay community.’ – Dave Rubin

‘My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn’t know what I needed, and I didn’t know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that’s why I had to go to community college.’ – Cain Velasquez

‘Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.’ – Ertharin Cousin

‘In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.’ – Martin Van Buren

‘The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.’ – Santiago Calatrava

‘With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.’ – Barack Obama

‘That’s the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.’ – Erin Gruwell

‘I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.’ – Chris Van Hollen

‘The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.’ – Allan Bloom

‘What I loved about playing Ms. Albright in ‘Love, Simon’ is that, so often, when we speak of allies in the queer community, we don’t really get to see what it means be an active ally. I love that she can step into this world with these kids and be a truth teller.’ – Natasha Rothwell

‘Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.’ – Clifford Stoll

‘I grew up in a predominantly white community – Hinsdale, Illinois – and given that, I feel blessed because I could still count my experiences with blatant racism on two hands. I thought racism was the substitute teacher picking on you because she assumes that you’re a delinquent, and she doesn’t know you have the highest score in the class.’ – Tomi Adeyemi

‘Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave… social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they’re losing that when they might really need it.’ – J. D. Vance

‘If we cannot create a beachhead, an anchor of affordability in our communities, in our urban areas, we will lose the people who actually make the community what it is.’ – Ted Wheeler

‘If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.’ – Kofi Annan

‘Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘A newspaper is the center of a community, it’s one of the tent poles of the community, and that’s not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.’ – Michael Connelly

‘The Jewish Orthodox community is playing footsie with the alt-right.’ – Zoey Tur

‘Anything that any player does to give back to the community, I’m in awe of, whether you’re starting your own foundation, joining other foundations, giving your time, whatever.’ – Jason Kelce

‘Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.’ – Yo Gotti

‘I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines – I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.’ – Haley Lu Richardson

‘One’s own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That’s what the human family is all about.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.’ – Jay Samit

‘We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.’ – Aldo Leopold

‘The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.’ – John Benjamin Hickey

‘Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘Sustainability is a part of our ‘rise’ philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We’re not talking about if you’re black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don’t know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.’ – Malcolm Gladwell

‘I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we have to determine, what do we actually want? We obviously want some social reform, on police brutality and things like that. We also need political changes. But it’s more than voting. What are we as black people asking of these politicians?’ – Maverick Carter

‘Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I’ve always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.’ – Richard MacDonald

‘Christine and I haven’t raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one’s self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.’ – James Woods

‘The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.’ – Dorothy Day

‘Quality of life actually begins at home – it’s in your street, around your community.’ – Charles Kennedy

‘The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.’ – Allen West

‘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 think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.’ – Deval Patrick

‘I was a struggling army wife going to community college who didn’t know what to do with my life.’ – Anna Todd

‘I do things – whether it’s donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community – for the right reason: because I want to. Because it’s the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that’s cool if I get it, but I’m not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn’t really phase me.’ – LeSean McCoy

‘I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn’t go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.’ – Bryan Stevenson

‘Rather than relying on farmers, ranchers, outdoorsmen, lumberjacks, surveyors, oil workers, miners, or community leaders who have decades of land use experience, government policymakers turn to 25-year-olds with master’s degrees in ecology and political science to run the country’s public lands policy.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘I’m grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.’ – Hayley Kiyoko

‘Often in gothic novels there’s a large house, an estate, and it’s symbolic of that culture. Usually it’s sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it’s a whole community.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘I had this really intense resolve. I would call universities and community colleges and say, ‘I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?’ And they would say, ‘You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.’ It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.’ – Susan Fowler

‘I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?’ – Jordan Peterson

‘The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.’ – William Herschel

‘The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.’ – Adam Silvera

‘Adversity will only sharpen our wits and make us more strong-willed, resulting in the political awakening of more Hong Kongers, not to mention the international community’s support.’ – Joshua Wong

‘In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.’ – William Barr

‘I’d say it’s even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We’re so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We’re all so different.’ – Carlos Ponce

‘History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.’ – Gavin Creel

‘We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community’s vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘Your ruling class don’t care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.’ – Frankie Boyle

‘White-on-black shootings evoke America’s history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although they are truly menacing to the black community. They evoke only despair.’ – Shelby Steele

‘I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.’ – Leonard Boswell

‘I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There was dearth in resources, and I saw young people – I saw black and brown girls – who are hurting and who needed something that just wasn’t there.’ – Tarana Burke

‘We’ll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I’ll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.’ – Peter Hain

‘What I’ve noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they’re using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.’ – Taya Kyle

‘The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn’t want to give a long dissertation.’ – Bobby Seale

‘Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists. We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.’ – MF Doom

‘I feel like I’m opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.’ – Lil Nas X

‘It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.’ – Sheikh Hasina

‘The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There’s no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.’ – Alcee Hastings

‘Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain.’ – Ross Douthat

‘I don’t make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I’m adding something to the cinematic community.’ – Seth Rogen

‘One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.’ – Stephen Covey

‘The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.’ – Marc Benioff

‘I think community and connection with people around us – and feeling that we belong – is really valuable.’ – Ruth Jones

‘There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘I was only 18 when I made ‘A Taste Of Honey’ in the city of Salford, where writer, Shelagh Delaney set it. She was about 19 when she wrote the play based on her experiences of life and what she observed in her community.’ – Rita Tushingham

‘Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.’ – John Lewis

‘In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

‘I don’t believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don’t feel that I should have to share it with my community.’ – Gary Numan

‘I have to say one of the most gratifying things about being in this industry for a long time is you do develop a genuine sense of community with the people you know and collaborate with.’ – Tony Goldwyn

‘We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.’ – Edward Sapir

‘I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We’ve taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.’ – Jim Brown

‘My greatest work comes in the community.’ – Marion Barry

‘Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.’ – Kim Edwards

‘Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.’ – John Masefield

‘One of the big things for me that’s been exciting is seeing the Asian-American community coming out, because I’m Filipino and Swedish and Irish.’ – Isa Briones

‘It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.’ – Brian Jordan

‘I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.’ – Bob Brown

‘As we see dislocation and disruption in certain parts of the country, from rural areas to my home in the industrial Midwest, and in the economy, this leads to a kind of disorientation and loss of community and identity. That void can be filled through constructive and positive things, like community involvement or family.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.’ – Ruth Benedict

‘No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community’s history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.’ – David Crystal

‘What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, ‘What’s next for me?’ and they ask themselves, ‘Why did this happen to me?” – Eric Greitens

‘I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it’s not the only voice.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘We’re talking about a chemical that’s out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it’s now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.’ – Robert Bilott

‘It’s always fun being in the community, reaching out to not only the Kansas City faithful, but also people that really don’t know that much about football and seeing the influence it could possibly have on them.’ – Travis Kelce

‘I wrote ‘Fight Song’ as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.’ – Rachel Platten

‘So many transgender people in the community are being covered with this umbrella of misconception that we are going to hurt someone. But we are not trying to hurt anyone.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.’ – Billy Graham

‘Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me – drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.’ – Johann Lamont

‘The higher the rate of covid-19 in a community, the more likely any one individual you come into contact with has the virus and the riskier your interactions become.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because I was rejected by the black community. They were like, ‘You talk like a white girl.’ People would call me an Oreo. All I wanted was acceptance.’ – Jodie Turner-Smith

‘If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.’ – Anne Lamott

‘The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.’ – Adam Goodes

‘I felt that society had told me out loud clearly and in no unclear terms, that there were several aspects of my personality, my life, my body, and my existence that were quite worthless. And then I found a community that said, ‘No, girl. You’re actually nailing it. All these things are great.” – Bob the Drag Queen

‘A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘When I got involved in the punk scene, my notion of what a career was changed. I realized that a career in the arts was actually about having the people and community to support you making your art.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother’s church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week.’ – Jamila Woods

‘If we’re going to tackle the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs, along with so many other issues that are at the top of our community’s mind, we need to reform our system and make it work for the people, not special interests and corporations.’ – Sharice Davids

‘When I was working on the first ‘Dark Souls’ – as far back as ‘Demon’s Souls,’ actually – I didn’t expect the player community to come up with speedrun contests or any of the strange new ways to play the games.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but coming from a disadvantaged community, I never knew that filmmaking was an option for me. A program like School of Doc would have been a game-changer.’ – Roger Ross Williams

‘I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘I think the more you can kind of decrease yourself and kind of increase other people’s stories and give them the light, I think that’s what it’s all about. Whether it’s community service or giving back to the community in different ways or helping people, it’s not about yourself.’ – Devin McCourty

‘I know that some people, when they are growing up and they – as a person of color in a majority community – that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.’ – Elaine Chao

‘Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I’ve seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now ‘Little India.’ with a confident Asian community.’ – Gurinder Chadha

‘I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, ‘Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?” – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Within the scientific community, there is healthy skepticism. And the question is, ‘How do you ever get to a meaningful null result? How long and how hard do SETI scientists have to look for extraterrestrial intelligence and find nothing before they say, ‘There is nothing. We are alone.” – Debra Fischer

‘I think it’s amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it’s done. We’ve been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It’s the most amazing detective story in history.’ – Sandra Faber

‘I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it’s such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.’ – Adam Driver

‘Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.’ – Earl Blumenauer

‘With VR, we have this same vision, which is create this ultimate platform for sharing your imagination. Our huge community of 300,000 developers creates awesome content that’s immersive, that’s social. Although now, instead of accessing it in your living room with your controller, you literally can jump into this content.’ – David Baszucki

‘I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn’t into the school thing, so that didn’t work out.’ – Karrueche Tran

‘It takes a planet to explore the universe, and we invite the global community to be part of Starlab’s success.’ – Dylan Taylor

‘It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they’re physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.’ – Thomas Piketty

‘I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan’s first AIDS commission.’ – Richard DeVos

‘What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.’ – Reid Hoffman

‘This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.’ – Jerry Costello

‘I’ve seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.’ – Beth Moore

‘Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music ‘root music.” – Jon Batiste

‘I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.’ – Ted Cruz

‘There’s a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who’s feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.’ – Diego Luna

‘President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?’ – Ron Fournier

‘Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.’ – Mary Hart

‘The E.U. has to be a community, thanks to which we are more secure, stronger, and we can achieve more. It shouldn’t be a structure which is associated by its citizens with prohibitions, orders and complicated regulations.’ – Andrzej Duda

‘I think there’s a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we’re losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together and building a community.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.’ – Nadia Murad

‘My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not necessarily by her parents, but certainly by the community around her. And she fled it.’ – Maya Wiley

‘Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.’ – Tom Peters

‘I don’t think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don’t like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world’s problems.’ – Tony Campolo

‘I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.’ – J. J. Johnson

‘I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.’ – Hugh Masekela

‘Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It’s a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.’ – Keith Jackson

‘My favorite food is dahl bhat, the only Nepalese food you can eat on all the expeditions. Everyone from the mountaineering community would know this!’ – Nirmal Purja

‘India’s obsession with food and its cultural importance in nourishing not just the body, but community and spirituality too, goes some way to explaining why Indian home cooking is hard to beat.’ – Melissa Leong

‘Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they’re wrong.’ – Harry Triguboff

‘So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.’ – William Blackstone

‘My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don’t produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.’ – Jean Reno

‘Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath – literally and in every aspect of community life.’ – Gordon Brown

‘Community colleges are one of America’s great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘It’s pretty cool just to see the support we have. It’s unmatched, Kansas City and the Chiefs Kingdom, the support they have for us. For me to just kind of be in the community and see those people is always a good thing.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘There are a lot of ways to make a positive impact on the community without necessarily being a politician.’ – Theo Epstein

‘In a close-knit community like Jasper, every loss feels personal.’ – Mike Braun

‘Nashville is wicked. It’s like a proper music community, but it’s also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you ‘boy.’ I just love that.’ – Ed Sheeran

‘It’s unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn’t care about any other ethnic groups.’ – Lecrae

‘We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.’ – Satya Nadella

‘All around me, I saw people who were taught by their parents, as I was, to just toe the line, not ruffle the feathers, not rock the boat too much and just put your head down, do your work and that’s it. And I think that as a community, we’re reaching the limitations of that kind of thinking.’ – Simu Liu

‘Shows like ‘Sex and the City’ got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.’ – Maynard Jackson

‘The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.’ – Magic Johnson

‘My parents didn’t really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.’ – Mike Krzyzewski

‘Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.’ – Brian Eno

‘The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how to live and making promises for them that their lives would get better and talking about a future based on globalism versus family and individual and local community. That’s what Brexit was all about.’ – Paul Manafort

‘Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.’ – Daniel Everett

‘I always prefer shooting on locations, because when I’m at home, it’s harder to sort of get lost in the world of whatever you’re making. It does, it does force this bond and community amongst a group.’ – Max Minghella

‘A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.’ – Herbert V. Prochnow

‘I believe my role as mayor is to be out in the community and as much as possible, I want my team out in the community.’ – Ted Wheeler

‘I feel so fortunate I was able to grow up in such a warm, loving, safe, beautiful community that I still call home.’ – Lari White

‘When you’re walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you’re a person that lives in an immigrant community, there’s no differentiating on – solely on the basis of what you look like. They don’t walk down the street saying, hi, I’m an immigrant; I’m here legally or not.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.’ – Sally Field

‘We live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection. We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.’ – Alan Ball

‘CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I’m a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.’ – Brian Chesky

‘Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.’ – Burnie Burns

‘Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community.’ – Eula Biss

”Community,’ that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people’s lives. It’s normal for us to be cut off from each other.’ – John Lanchester

‘The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough… No, I do not support the Dream Act.’ – Michael Baumgartner

‘There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay

‘Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.’ – Fareed Zakaria

‘For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art’s Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one’s poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.’ – Louis MacNeice

‘When you’ve got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.’ – Tony Hawk

‘The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we’re thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there’s a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they’re making.’ – Matt Mullenweg

‘While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I’d be an automotive designer – I grew up in Detroit – and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.’ – Andrew J. Feustel

‘Fortunately art is a community effort – a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.’ – Allen Ginsberg

‘I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘I have played a lesbian and it’s akin to breaking social barriers. Many have told me they are happy that a commercial heroine did that. I have a few friends in the LGBTQ community and they complimented me on the role.’ – Regina Cassandra

‘People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.’ – Adam Draper

‘One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there’s no lending, that it’s tough to get a loan today.’ – Alexi Giannoulias

‘It’s really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here – a lot of them can’t even speak our language.’ – Romeo Santos

‘You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.’ – William Bratton

‘Intelligence agencies, congressional leaders, and outside experts have all assessed that Russia was responsible for a sweeping attack on the US election in 2016. Trump has given lip service to this assessment, saying he accepts the intelligence community’s conclusions, while acting like he does not.’ – Brian Stelter

‘In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘We can’t have career criminals walking around with no records. The law enforcement community that I spoke with agreed.’ – Tate Reeves

‘It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.’ – Jill Biden

‘I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.’ – Dolly Parton

‘I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.’ – Kamala Harris

‘The intelligence community does not have complete ‘eyes on’ the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran’s nuclear facilities and processes.’ – Michael T. Flynn

‘I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren’t right and that we don’t agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can’t really get into.’ – Jessica Williams

‘When I came up in a band – not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community – there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.’ – Caroline Polachek

‘Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.’ – Oliver Tambo

‘The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.’ – Aleksander Kwasniewski

‘The Homeland Security department doesn’t have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can’t direct anything except inside their bureau.’ – David Hunt

‘We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.’ – K. D. Lang

‘Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.’ – Douglas Alexander

‘We don’t need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.’ – Greg Boyle

‘Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.’ – Rand Paul

‘Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.’ – Samuel Hopkins

‘The thing is, I don’t do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you’re not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.’ – Simon Schama

‘Others will have opinions on how I do and that’s just fine… I’ve been elected four times, delivered results for my constituents and delivered legislative policy changes that have helped veterans, for example. So, I’m going to keep doing the hard work that I’ve done that has worked so far for my community and for our team.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.’ – Mitch Albom

‘But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.’ – Charles Bass

‘It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.’ – Stephen Gardiner

‘School is something that you learn – reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.’ – Bunker Roy

‘The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is ‘Good without a God,’ created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community.’ – Elizabeth Flock

‘As a community, we’re fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there’s the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren’t written for Asians, and I think that’s something that completely should happen; Why can’t an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure… or the Matt Damon roles?’ – Ross Butler

‘The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.’ – Michael Hayden

‘I think the first step towards exploring the unexplored side of the LGBTQ community is to show them on screen, to create a visibility.’ – Ncuti Gatwa

‘Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.’ – Opal Tometi

‘I’m all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We’re moving forward. We’ve got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.’ – Steve Ballmer

‘I think everybody’s political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you’re automatically political because you’re part of a community.’ – Julianne Moore

‘Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.’ – Gary L. Francione

‘There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.’ – Santiago Calatrava

‘The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.’ – Chris Abani

‘The key thing about force protection is… if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you’re putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘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

‘We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let’s-take-care-of-one-another. That’s the creative challenge.’ – Jerry Brown

‘Calvin Klein is such an iconic brand in fashion, so I feel like working with them means you’re definitely doing something right. They bring validation to someone, not only in the fashion community but in someone’s career, which is why it was such an honor to work with them.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘I am very, very hopeful about the American South – I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called ‘the beloved community.” – John Lewis

‘Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.’ – Howard Gardner

‘I don’t know if I’m ever considered a part of the community I’m in.’ – Bozoma Saint John

‘And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.’ – Ernst Toller

‘I’m really familiar with what Cardboard’s doing; it’s not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘Pakistan is keen to promote its trade with India, we want economic ties getting stronger with India. Our business community is keen to reach out to their Indian counterparts. And of course, we want to resolve the issue of Kashmir, which is a flash point in our relations.’ – Nawaz Sharif

‘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

‘Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community’s coast guard.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.’ – Emmett Shear

‘When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.’ – Robert Klein

‘Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.’ – Anita Diament

‘That is the thing that brought the Black community through so many of the hardships that we’ve faced historically. It’s the ability to love and laugh and experience joy still in so many ways.’ – KiKi Layne

‘Well, there’s been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can’t continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we’ve had.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can’t be part of the same peaceful community of nations.’ – Wesley Clark

‘We need to understand why there is a void of participation in public life from the Muslim community and why it is a growing issue, and we need to understand the impact of this on wider civil society.’ – Dominic Grieve

‘You shouldn’t get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.’ – Kathleen Turner

‘Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn’t want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.’ – Rose McIver

‘The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end – and that is discord, alienation among Americans, rise in hate, and destruction of community bonds. The relative increase in justice afforded black Americans is of little concern, save as a convenient veneer for their anti-democratic mission.’ – David A. Clarke, Jr.

‘What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone – whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn’t matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I’m there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can’t stand the smashing of a community. It’s not fair and it’s not right.’ – Pauley Perrette

‘I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.’ – Anita Roddick

‘It reassures me that when we get together as a community, when we put our effort together and our will to help others, we can achieve anything, and that is a lesson for us all.’ – Julie Payette

‘The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.’ – Jessye Norman

‘Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Nobody gets a free pass in life, and that’s awesomely true for a drag queen or anyone else in the LGBT community. But I like to say, ‘Don’t be bitter, get better.” – Alyssa Edwards

‘It’s very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.’ – Eddie Money

‘In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community’s armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.’ – John Thorn

‘I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.’ – Anne Lamott

‘But in practice master plans fail – because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.’ – Christopher Alexander

‘We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion – each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.’ – William Barr

‘It’s not that bad things never happen. But there’s a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well – whether it’s getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘The wrestling community is a constant; its members are diverse, we are physically located on all corners of the planet, yet we are constantly connected.’ – Tony Khan

‘With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.’ – August Wilson

‘Today’s message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.’ – Javier Solana

‘Loom.ai will accelerate making human co-experiences more immersive and personal, adding world-class facial animation technology as part of Roblox’s efforts to provide expressive emotive actions to avatars that will enable deeper connections for our community.’ – David Baszucki

‘People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.’ – John Doerr

‘We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.’ – Erwin McManus

‘I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.’ – Chrissie Hynde

‘I’d always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.’ – Naomi Scott

‘I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.’ – Bernice King

‘Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.’ – Nyle DiMarco

‘Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls – you don’t find a sense of community in malls.’ – Bill Bryson

‘The tenets of my cultural teachings are rooted in our commitment to lift up every community member so that no one is left behind. Work and food were shared equally. Through our commitment to community, we care about children, even when they aren’t ours, and we want our old folks, and yours, to live their last days in dignity and comfort.’ – Deb Haaland

‘I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.’ – Colleen Hanabusa

‘As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.’ – Nursultan Nazarbayev

‘The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.’ – Courtney Act

‘Every phenomenon of nature was a word, – the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.’ – Johann Georg Hamann

‘When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle of the night sobbing, just trying to process what had happened and wanting to find community around being in a lot of grief and having a lot of rage.’ – Alicia Garza

‘Being named NFLPA Community MVP is an amazing honor.’ – Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

‘People say, ‘He doesn’t want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.’ I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don’t want it to be limited.’ – Sam Smith

‘You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community.’ – Gerry Harvey

‘Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we’re seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I’m talking the upper echelon of dance studios.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson’s community with similar experiences and similar questions that I’d been dealing with alone.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘From building robots and video games to coding apps that solve a problem in your community, or 3D printing in fashion tech, it is important that we explore different ways to engage girls in STEAM and also ensure that there are many, and different, women role models that will inspire our girls to pursue STEAM careers.’ – Rana el Kaliouby

‘You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she’s brilliant. She’s a brilliant entertainer, she’s a brilliant lady, and she’s a wonderful human being, and the community doesn’t like it.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.’ – V. S. Naipaul

‘Marseille has a big Muslim community. The good thing is it is a melting point: all nationalities in there. Everyone is fine with each other. It is really close to North Africa, to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, so a lot of them come from there.’ – Samir Nasri

‘The short form, speed, and consistency of communication by Trump beat Clinton’s nuanced, detailed, and long-form communication. Trump came across as more genuine, Clinton as less than transparent. Trump engaged directly with his community; Clinton spoke through the media in a careful and less frequent manner.’ – Richard Edelman

‘There’s a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information – the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘It’s not the Olympics. It’s Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I’m part of.’ – Christa McAuliffe

‘There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘I did community theater for a long time and never had an agent. And then I got an agent and I remember that was my introduction to her telling me I wasn’t enough as I was. She told me, ‘You’re going to have to change your hair. No one wants to see a Black woman with dreadlocks on television.’ And I believed it.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.’ – Majora Carter

‘There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘Throughout my years of public service, I’ve listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I’ll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.’ – Mark Udall

‘The deaf community and the hearing community, there’s not always a ton of interaction.’ – Constance Marie

‘I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.’ – Daddy Yankee

‘In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.’ – Jim Justice

‘I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.’ – Pope Francis

‘Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that’s what happens at Homeboy Industries.’ – Greg Boyle

‘One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.’ – The Edge

‘Coming into community college, I wasn’t sure of where I wanted to go in my future.’ – Rashad Evans

‘Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.’ – Tony Dungy

‘We don’t need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.’ – Donella Meadows

‘Don’t tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don’t debate it.’ – Dominique Jackson

‘We need to recognize that, whether you’re looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of voters, the suppression of votes, cuts across every community, and therefore, it cuts across partisanship.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘Yeah, my parents really valued education; they were both educators. But it was definitely true that I grew up in an area where a lot people didn’t go to college. A lot of people did two years, a kind of terminal two years at community college.’ – Katie Porter

‘The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls’ exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.’ – Ann Cotton

‘My giving story started with my parents – my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘When I was younger, we lived in a horse community.’ – Kendall Jenner

‘The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community fought to build better lives for themselves while making this nation a better place for all.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘I’d never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.’ – Edward Enninful

‘We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.’ – Tarana Burke

‘I feel like there’s this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It’s something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.’ – John Cho

‘When I’m near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there’s a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I’ll seek them out.’ – Jon Voight

‘It is so rewarding to have a community that I can interact with. Whether it’s meeting them in person or reading their comments, it’s all so surreal and humbling.’ – Emma Chamberlain

‘Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.’ – Steve Harvey

‘I don’t have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it’s not like us anymore. It’s the idea of Notch and the ‘Minecraft’ community.’ – Markus Persson

‘When our community is under-represented, its people don’t receive the resources and attention they need to thrive.’ – Cori Bush

‘People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health – for better and for worse – to such a strong degree.’ – Dean Ornish

‘Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.’ – Alberto Fujimori

‘The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.’ – Jim Brown

‘Our parents instilled in us a sense of community and how it takes a village to raise a family.’ – T. J. Watt

‘Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called ‘It Takes a Village.’ And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, ‘What the heck do you mean by that?’ This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.’ – Jane Byrne

‘Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.’ – Richard Stallman

‘I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘Murray felt like a second home from the minute I stepped on campus and became a part of the Murray state community.’ – Ja Morant

‘The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what’s happening in their culture, their community.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.’ – Rick Renzi

‘The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised – that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.’ – Marco Rubio

‘The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama’s view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘When you demonize Muslims as a community, as an entire group of people based on the crimes or actions of a tiny minority within that community, you have very worrying, real world effects.’ – Mehdi Hasan

‘In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.’ – Barack Obama

‘The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.’ – Heather Brooke

‘If we don’t have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.’ – Milton Glaser

‘I think when you have big-time businesses around that want to be part of the sports community and the athletic community it’s a huge advantage in the bigger markets.’ – Travis Kelce

‘The British community is very active and very generous in many different areas. I can only have high praise for them.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people.’ – Lauren Mayberry

‘As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning – regardless of age, income or location.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That’s okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.’ – Eugene H. Peterson

‘There is so much frustration in the heterosexual male community manifesting in different ways, whether it be aggression or sexism or racism. I’m not saying all heterosexual men are that way, but you do see a lot of it.’ – Courtney Act

‘Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.’ – Stephen Gardiner

‘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

‘My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don’t want to be a pal, I want to be a father.’ – Clifton Fadiman

‘The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.’ – John Hay Whitney

‘The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community – these are the most vital things education must try to produce.’ – Virginia Gildersleeve

‘In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.’ – E. W. Howe

‘The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I’m the journalist who’s going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!’ – Ricky Martin

‘Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.’ – James Hal Cone

‘I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.’ – Dominique de Villepin

‘Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.’ – Tony Blair

‘I think it’s appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.’ – Mike Farrell

‘Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.’ – Washington Irving

‘It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.’ – Bill Owens

‘We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.’ – Bill Richardson

‘Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.’ – Mathieu Kerekou

‘We are stronger because we recognize that government isn’t the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.’ – Jeb Bush

‘Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.’ – Jeb Bush

‘The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation’s intelligence community.’ – Ted Stevens

‘I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.’ – Richard Shelby

‘Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances – and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.’ – Joe Lieberman

‘Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.’ – Joe Biden

‘Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.’ – Barack Obama

‘As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.’ – Jim Inhofe

‘The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.’ – Orrin Hatch

‘We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.’ – Jose Maria Aznar

‘I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn’t think that, there would be something wrong with me. I’m grateful and thankful for what I’ve got.’ – Philip Seymour Hoffman

‘Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners.’ – Dirk Kempthorne

‘I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can’t talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.’ – Joe Lieberman

‘Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.’ – Pat Roberts

‘Our children’s health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.’ – Rod Blagojevich

‘What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?’ – Russ Feingold

‘If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.’ – Paul Bremer

‘If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.’ – Helen Clark

‘No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.’ – Hugo Chavez

‘It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.’ – Seymour Hersh

‘The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia… but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.’ – Boris Trajkovski

‘I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about – over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life’s very full today. Not enough days in the week.’ – Margaret Smith Court

‘Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.’ – Richard Perle

‘Communities don’t have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.’ – Michael Badnarik

‘A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life – and I don’t mean money.’ – William Baldwin

‘My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don’t know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.’ – Andy Garcia

‘What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.’ – Arthur Hertzberg

‘The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.’ – Arundhati Roy

‘I like how they are. I think they’re great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I’ve ever lived. Really, it’s terrific.’ – Peter Carey

‘We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace – building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.’ – Joe Lieberman

‘Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.’ – Slobodan Milosevic

‘Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.’ – Valerie Solanas

‘Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.’ – Ed Smith

‘One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.’ – Ed Smith

‘So I’m a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They’re living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.’ – Ed Smith

‘When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.’ – Ed Smith

‘The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That’s one of the prices you pay for progress.’ – Ed Smith

‘One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there’s the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.’ – David Soul

‘When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.’ – Jerry Doyle

‘Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.’ – Said Musa

‘The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.’ – Arthur Henderson

‘Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.’ – Walter Gilbert

‘Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.’ – William Robertson Smith

‘People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.’ – Jimmy Wales

‘Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.’ – Jean Vanier

‘I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn’t enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn’t prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.’ – Frank McCourt

‘I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it’s so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don’t want me to come around.’ – Leonard Orr

‘While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.’ – Burton Richter

‘Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who’s going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.’ – Douglas Feith

‘We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.’ – Jane Harman

‘Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.’ – James J. Corbett

‘During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.’ – Eddie Bernice Johnson

‘I’m an Air force Brat and I’ve lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay – nurses, hairdressers, designers – people who just had a different way about themselves.’ – Pam Grier

‘I don’t just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.’ – Lesley Garrett

‘We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.’ – Mitchell Baker

‘We have a very active testing community which people don’t often think about when you have open source.’ – Mitchell Baker

‘In an online community, there’s this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that’s a good website that’s visited a lot, but there’s no real gameplay there.’ – Will Wright

‘I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can’t say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.” – Richard Dreyfuss

‘I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq’s money.’ – Ahmed Chalabi

‘I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.’ – Huey Newton

‘It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.’ – William Thomas Stead

‘What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.’ – Barry McCaffrey

‘When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.’ – Everett Dirksen

‘With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.’ – Andrew Shue

‘We had a much deeper sense of community in ’67 than we do in ’97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it’s not as if ’67 was a time when things were so good.’ – Cornel West

‘More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.’ – Anthony Weiner

‘In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.’ – Richard John Neuhaus

‘The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.’ – Adam Schiff

‘America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.’ – Adam Schiff

‘And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.’ – Adam Schiff

‘Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.’ – Bill Griffith

‘I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.’ – Christopher Shays

‘Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters – it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.’ – Stephen Breyer

‘I think when you’ve travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don’t recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level – at community level.’ – Stephen Lewis

‘My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.’ – Jim Moran

‘Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn’t have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.’ – Henry Hampton

‘We don’t have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There’s a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it’s not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.’ – Henry Hampton

‘First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.’ – Huston Smith

‘I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That’s something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community – that’s the synthesis I want to achieve.’ – Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

‘Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.’ – Thomas Cochrane

‘How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?’ – Tim Reid

‘The committee’s work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.’ – Ruth J. Simmons

‘I don’t think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That’s all right. I’ve never looked for a job in my life, and I’m not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.’ – Martin Yan

‘What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe’s interest.’ – Norm Dicks

‘Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I’ll tell you; it’s a majority among them.’ – Tom Tancredo

‘The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.’ – Jane D. Hull

‘If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.’ – Jeremy Jackson

‘It’s clear to me now that we’ve got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.’ – John Abizaid

‘We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘We’re seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They’re not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.’ – Roger Mahony

‘Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.’ – Ben Edwards

‘The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.’ – Ben Edwards

‘While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.’ – Bob Menendez

‘There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.’ – Bob Menendez

‘In the hip-hop community, it’s about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.’ – Nick Cannon

‘Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.’ – Leeza Gibbons

‘I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.’ – Vincent Frank

‘I’ve also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.’ – Vincent Frank

‘For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.’ – Mel Carnahan

‘We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.’ – David Selby

‘I’ve never worked with the Java community.’ – Miguel de Icaza

‘Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.’ – Natan Sharansky

‘However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.’ – Robert Huber

‘I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.’ – Tom Allen

‘Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘What’s much harder is taking on people in your own community.’ – Jonathan Shapiro

‘Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.’ – Michael K. Powell

‘One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community – especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.’ – John Poindexter

‘The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.’ – Major Owens

‘Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.’ – Michael N. Castle

‘Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends – a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family.’ – Michael N. Castle

‘Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it’s a very different sort of situation.’ – Peter Singer

‘So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, ‘Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.’ That’s one of the problems that directly affects the business community.’ – Richard M. Daley

‘Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.’ – Mary Douglas

‘It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.’ – Mary Douglas

‘I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.’ – Bill Joy

‘China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.’ – Li Peng

‘Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.’ – Li Peng

‘We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.’ – Li Peng

‘And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don’t want us in your community, that’s your choice, but don’t say it’s because of wages.’ – Lee Scott

‘It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.’ – Hans Kung

‘And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.’ – Hans Kung

‘If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.’ – Jane Byrne

‘I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.’ – Jim Walsh

‘We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don’t go out on strike because then there’s no work and no potential of work.’ – Dick Wolf

‘One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn’t attacked us, it’s because he can’t or because we’ve defeated him.’ – Michael Scheuer

‘I would find myself backing away from all of the ‘isms’, all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.’ – Anthony Braxton

‘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

‘Paris is a wonderful city. I can’t say I belong to an especially anglophone community.’ – Marilyn Hacker

‘Community means people spending time together here, and I don’t think there’s really that.’ – Marilyn Hacker

‘You don’t need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.’ – Alan Autry

‘Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.’ – Alan Autry

‘We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.’ – Alan Autry

‘Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.’ – Alan Autry

‘The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.’ – Greg Walden

‘The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.’ – Judith Light

‘To me, celebrity doesn’t mean a whole lot unless you’re willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.’ – Judith Light

‘Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.’ – Peter Garrett

‘The economic piece is still missing, since it’s so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they’re doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.’ – James Welch

‘I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.’ – Samuel Wilson

‘I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.’ – Samuel Wilson

‘The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.’ – Walter Jon Williams

‘Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.’ – William L. Jenkins

‘In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.’ – Jimmy Smits

‘There’s a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.’ – Linda M. Godwin

‘Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.’ – Barney Frank

‘It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.’ – Barney Frank

‘When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.’ – Barney Frank

‘I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.’ – Beth Henley

‘Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.’ – Bo Jackson

‘All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It’s called competition. And competition is antagonism.’ – Edward Bond

‘Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.’ – George Mason

‘Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.’ – Jim Gerlach

‘In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we’re offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities – and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.’ – John M. McHugh

‘Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.’ – Pat Brown

‘As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God’s people – historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant – is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.’ – Rowan Williams

‘It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity.’ – Rowan Williams

‘It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn’t mean anything – even from people you’re supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.’ – Dwight Schultz

‘Anyone interested in the world generally can’t help being interested in young adult culture – in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.’ – Margaret Mahy

‘I think the world should be one community.’ – Neil Tennant

‘I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters – that’s the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.’ – Randy Harrison

‘Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.’ – Ron Kind

‘What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.’ – Serge Lang

‘If Baltimore’s view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.’ – Serge Lang

‘They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.’ – Serge Lang

‘I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.’ – Thomas Menino

‘In the 1990s, we introduced Boston’s community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.’ – Thomas Menino

‘Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It’s one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.’ – Russell Banks

‘Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.’ – Paul Cellucci

‘You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.’ – Alexander Kluge

‘One of the things that’s clear to me from interviews that I’ve read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.’ – Branford Marsalis

‘I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them… to see this happen to our city and our community.’ – Sigourney Weaver

‘I love the ACLU and I’m concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority – I don’t know who they are.’ – Debbie Harry

‘Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that’s why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.’ – Jim Ramstad

‘I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.’ – Kevin Johnson

‘The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn’t discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.’ – David Kay

‘The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew.’ – Erika Christensen

‘If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald’s, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.’ – Solomon Burke

‘I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn’t like about this community.’ – Tea Leoni

‘Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can’t do a comedy unless you’ve just done a comedy.’ – Val Kilmer

‘We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment.’ – George Pataki

‘Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.’ – Paul Parker

‘Any institution becomes a community – whether it’s a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We’re not just service providers.’ – Jim Wallis

‘That’s why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. 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

‘The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.’ – John Polanyi

‘In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.’ – Robert Mueller

‘Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.’ – Eduard Shevardnadze

‘This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.’ – William P. Leahy

‘BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church – that’s got to come out of the whole Catholic community.’ – William P. Leahy

‘I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.’ – Jan Egeland

‘We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.’ – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

‘In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes – the interest – is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.’ – John Buchanan Robinson

‘The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.’ – John Buchanan Robinson

‘We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it’s picking the winners in the competition.’ – Robert McChesney

‘I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she’s gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.’ – Laura Innes

‘In the ’80s, I can’t say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.’ – Griffin Dunne

‘However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan’s neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.’ – Lakhdar Brahimi

‘The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.’ – Lakhdar Brahimi

‘So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.’ – Lakhdar Brahimi

‘In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don’t know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.’ – Lakhdar Brahimi

‘But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.’ – Lakhdar Brahimi

‘It’s a hard thing to legislate. You can’t legislate good taste and you can’t put a number on it in terms of square footage. It’s a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.’ – Ann Robinson

‘Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.’ – Michael C. Burgess

‘Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?’ – Robert Casey

‘One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.’ – Camryn Manheim

‘There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.’ – Teri Garr

‘You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.’ – Teri Garr

‘I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don’t know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.’ – Teri Garr

‘I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.’ – Anita Diament