Quotes about Community
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.
- St. John Chrysostom
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
- Jesse Jackson
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
- Joel Osteen
One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
- John Lennon
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
- Mother Teresa