Quotes about Community

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

We do not exist for ourselves...

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.

My third day playing saxophone, I was in front of a congregation. I still didn't know the names of all the notes. I was playing by ear, following along, but it was such an encouraging environment, I couldn't fail. It was all, 'Yeah baby, you sound real good' no matter what you play. It was a great way to learn.

Real men are almost nowhere to be found in the black community; fatherlessness is the norm, and godlessness has taken over black churches.