Quotes about Community

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.

The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.

White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.