Quotes about Community

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

I used to be one of those students who needed to see something bigger, and God brought people into my life who gave me a bigger vision than the circumstances that surrounded me.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

I have a wonderful synagogue, fantastic rabbi and cantor and membership, and they just enrich my life every day, and I learned so much from helping to grow our synagogue, grow our membership, and meet the needs of such a diverse population.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

Commitment Now, nobody can have unity on his or her own. You cannot be married on your own. There is no such thing as an independent believer. You cannot have unity by belonging nowhere.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks