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Community Quotes


"There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system."


"Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship."


"The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor."


"Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community."


"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community."


"Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community."


"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."


"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."


"Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce."


"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."


"Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community."


"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars."


"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."


"Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights."


"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story."


"If your support the community, they will support you."


"If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table."


"The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location."


"Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style."


"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."


"The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community."


"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity."


"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."


"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community."


"My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!"


"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."


"I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs."


"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption."


"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics."


"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."


"Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis."


"We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans."


"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."


"Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country."


"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools."
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