Quotes about Community

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.

God does not want to make us comfortable as much as He wants to make us comfort-able - to take the comfort that we receive and share it with others.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.