Quotes about Community

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

My experience teaches me that if a man has little or no influence with those by whose side he lives, as a rule there is something wrong with him.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This