Quotes about Community

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Through them, I discovered a community of faith—that it was okay to doubt, to question, and still reach for something beyond the here and now.

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

This dual sense of individual advancement and collective decline that I thought accounted for some of the most troubling attitudes I heard in some conversations.

If your next-door neighbor's house is on fire, you don't want the fire department dispatcher asking whether it was caused by lightning or by someone smoking in bed before agreeing to send a fire truck; you just want the fire put out before it reaches your house.

The name's Obama. Where do I belong?

America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder — but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer — but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes...

Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

We will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.

Despite all that, they'd given me a chance. Through the noise and chatter of the political circus, they'd heard my call for something different. Even if I hadn't always been at my best, they'd divined what was best in me: the voice insisting that for all our differences, we remained bound as one people, and that, together, men and women of goodwill could find a way to a better future.