Quotes about Communities
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
- Numbers 35:7
In all, ten cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.
- Joshua 21:26
For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.
- Joshua 21:41
So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
- Ezra 2:70
from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 12:29
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
- Wendell Berry
Republicans have to tell the truth about the issues impacting the black community. The must focus on restoring the black family, jobs, safe communities, and better schools. They have to make sure not to pander to blacks by treating them like victims or as 'special minority' group.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
- Barack Obama
Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Make no mistake, the privatization of prisons is less about unburdening taxpayers than it is about providing bankrupt communities with sources of income and especially about providing corporations with a captured population available for unpaid labor.
- Toni Morrison
Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.
- Lydia Millet
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.
- Mike Pence