Quotes about Community
The effect of this movement, or revolution, as I have called it, is not to "tear down and level up" in order to bring about an artificial equality, but to give every individual a chance "to make good," to determine for himself his place and position in the community by the character and quality of the service he is able to perform.
- Booker T. Washington
This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.
- Booker T. Washington
Assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong.
- Booker T. Washington
The poor know they are in need.
- Heidi Baker
A few of the villagers began to stone us and our children.
- Heidi Baker
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
- Helen Keller
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
- Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage,—the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.
- Tony Evans
Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was made known to them that they were called children of God, as it is written, 'Ye are the children of the Lord your God.'
- Akiva ben Joseph
MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.
- Reid Hoffman
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
- Jacqueline Novogratz