Quotes about Community

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.

I love it when someone tries a recipe of mine and posts a picture of the finished product. Completely rewarding. It makes my day every time.

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us.

Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.

Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.