Community Quotes

"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'" "We commit ourselves to language and community at the same time" "Small groups of people can have a really huge impact" "Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us." "There are no more foundations in the U.S. than in the hearts of the people." "If I maintain enough presence I can always get an audience, and it doesn't matter where I am – whether it is watching a pupil at an inner-city school or an inmate in prison." "I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them." "I swear sports and music are so synonymous, cause we want to be them, and they want to be us" "Surround yourself with people who want to see you win." "We are none of us alone in this world and of all the things we are not, we are not islands" "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together " "The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people." "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized." "I can promise you that women working together linked, informed, and educated can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."