I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Alice WalkerThis City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PlatoIt’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
Madeleine AlbrightWhat we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham MaslowI think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.
AuroraThe newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Nikola TeslaAll religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra ModiThe citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.
Christopher HitchensWe have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.
Pope FrancisBeing acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Kendrick LamarThe spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
Stephen CoveyI think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Lady GagaAn association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas JeffersonI’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
Greta ThunbergI think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
Dolly PartonThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteI love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.
Thich Nhat HanhI see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.
Pope FrancisCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles DickensI want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
George Bernard ShawAll great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald ReaganSeek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert SchweitzerEvery utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?
Margaret AtwoodI have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee WilliamsAny of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘
Joel OsteenNo man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. WashingtonI’m a people’s man – only the people matter.
Bill ShanklyOurs is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
Barack ObamaIf you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
Lou HoltzOur veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.
Michelle ObamaIt’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry SeinfeldIn my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
Joe BidenSometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn MonroeWe have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
Lou HoltzYou can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Harry S. TrumanI think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.
Alice WalkerInstead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
Pope FrancisMasterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia WoolfThe suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
Christopher HitchensDo not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.
Michelle ObamaPeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleMy real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.
J. ColeI’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
Maya AngelouOne of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘
Douglas AdamsThat is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
Barack ObamaI want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother TeresaWhen I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam SandlerIt’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
Jordan PetersonWe’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.
Mark ZuckerbergThe Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
Noam ChomskySo while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack ObamaThose newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.
Cristiano RonaldoStill and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt VonnegutWhatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.
Ray BradburyAs individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve JobsI like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.
Jim MattisA lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
Billy Graham