Quotes about Community

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

My experience teaches me that if a man has little or no influence with those by whose side he lives, as a rule there is something wrong with him.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

I felt from the first that mere book education was not all that the young people of that town needed. I began my work at eight o'clock in the morning, and, as a rule, it did not end until ten o'clock at night. In addition to the usual routine of teaching, I taught the pupils to comb their hair, and to keep their hands and faces clean, as well as their clothing. I gave special attention to teaching them the proper use of the tooth-brush and the bath.

The effect of this movement, or revolution, as I have called it, is not to "tear down and level up" in order to bring about an artificial equality, but to give every individual a chance "to make good," to determine for himself his place and position in the community by the character and quality of the service he is able to perform.

This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.