"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for
your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your
later work belongs."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Abraham Lincoln:
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should
be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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Alfred Tennyson:
I am a part of all that I have met.
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Black Elk:
Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the
strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the
eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With
your power only can I face the winds.
(1863-1950) Oglala Sioux holy man
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional
relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do
it.
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Chinese proverb:
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
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Cicero:
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with
the human race.
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Elie Wiesel:
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century
-- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and
those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and
humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define
themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
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Frederick Buechner:
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in
turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far
place my touch will be felt.
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George Bernard Shaw:
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as
I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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George H. W. Bush:
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community
organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing
good.
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Gertrude Stein:
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with
others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Groucho Marx:
I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a
member.
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HH the Dalai Lama:
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or
with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It
lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each
one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around
us.
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Harold Kushner:
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is
joined to another.
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Jane Addams:
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is
secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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John Dewey:
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and
communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and
accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat
complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience
changing.
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Lyndon B. Johnson:
The American city should be a collection of communities where every
member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels
safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place
where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the
respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each
of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a
member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of
civilization. It is what we seek today.
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M. Scott Peck:
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community
without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life,
without community.
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Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Marian Wright Edelman:
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important
that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about
moral and community values.
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Marian Wright Edelman:
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we
need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
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Marianne Williamson:
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are
wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
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Mark Morrison-Reed:
The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow
to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is
renewed.
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Mitsugi Saotome:
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with
which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what
would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives
your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each
other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
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Mother Teresa:
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already
saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be
extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
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Pope Paul VI:
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object
is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful
collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of
the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for
the bee which is bad for the hive.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his
indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on
power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other
to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and
social; reform is individual and imperious.
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Robert McAfee Brown:
How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community.
The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people….
Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need,
it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
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Rumi:
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.
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Sandra Day O'Connor:
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens
is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of
individual threads from one to another that creates something.
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Sharon Welch:
Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value
ourselves, and leads us to hope for more
than the established cultural system is willing to grant ... such love is
far more energizing than guilt, duty, or self-sacrifice. Love for others
leads us to accept accountability (in contrast to feeling guilt) and
motivates our search for ways to end our complicity with structures of
oppression. Solidarity does not require self-sacrifice, but an
enlargement of the self to include community with others.
[The Feminist Ethic of Risk]
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Starhawk:
We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place
half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from
time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak
with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a
circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter,
voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.
Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that
needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A
circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
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Vaclav Havel:
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics
I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those
around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after
us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed
through action, to and for the whole.
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Virginia Woolf:
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship
with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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Virginia Woolf:
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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Wendell Berry:
We clasp the hands of those that go before us,
And the hands of those who come after us.
We enter the little circle of each other's arms
And the larger circle of lovers,
Whose hands are joined in a dance,
And the larger circle of all creatures,
Passing in and out of life,
Who move also in a dance,
To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it
Except in fragments
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“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the
helm.”
Henrik Ibsen quotes (Major
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“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact
majority”
Henrik Ibsen quotes (Major Norwegian playwright of the late 19th
century, 1828-1906)
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“The devil is compromise”
Henrik Ibsen quotes (Major Norwegian playwright of the late 19th
century, 1828-1906)
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, "A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be...",
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“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on
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“It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without
understanding what is the interest of the individual”
Jeremy Bentham quotes ( Philosopher and Activist. 1748-1832)
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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation,
there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
Marianne Williamson quotes (American Author and Lecturer, spiritual
leader of the Church of Today, b.1952)
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“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.”
A. Philip Randolph quotes
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