Quotes about Community

The truth is, as an adult, I've experienced more racism from other black people than I have from white people. I've been hated because, as a black man, I love America, and am reluctant to criticize it. Since blacks are taught by their leaders and communities to hate whites and be angry at the United States, anything except the typical condemnations of whites and this country is offensive to them.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it's about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.