Quotes about Community

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.