Quotes about Community

It will not be in the power of the President and Senate to make any treaties by which they and their families and estates will not be equally bound and affected with the rest of the community; and, having no private interests distinct from that of the nation, they will be under no temptations to neglect the latter.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.