Our Community Quotes - Page 5

• Compromiso cívico significa trabajar para marcar la diferencia en la vida cívica de nuestras comunidades y desarrollar la combinación de conocimientos, habilidades, valores y motivación para marcar esa diferencia. Significa promover la calidad de vida en una comunidad, a través de procesos políticos y no políticos.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Motivation, Mean, Skills

  Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places—having to hire people from somewhere else.

  Marion Barry

  Teacher, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  "Marion Barry's remarks on Filipino nurses draw criticism" by Jummy Olabanji, wjla.com. April 24, 2012.

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• We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.

  Chris Brogan

  Community, Mind, Important

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• We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.

  Craig Newmark

  Success, Business, Mean

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• This is very positive for our community...The educational facilities in our area are enjoying advanced broadband services over a state-of-the-art 4G wireless network

  Larry Gates

  Art, Educational, Community

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• Sigo pintando. Me encanta la alegría que el color puede dar a nuestras vidas y a nuestras comunidades. Intento aportar algo del artista que hay en mí a mi política.

  Edi Rama

  Artist, Color, Giving

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• THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to the human experience. Our finest achievements are possible when people come together to work for a common cause. School spirit, the rightful pride we feel in our community, our heritage, our religion, and our families, all come from the value we place on belonging to a group.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  School, Character, Pride

  Rosalind Wiseman (2013). “Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World”, p.37, Harmony

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• Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

  Candice S. Miller

  Numbers, Community, Criminals

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• First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

  Laozi

  Community, Mindfulness, World

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• We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

  Naomi Klein

  Spiritual, Community, Brands

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• Every day in the news we're hearing how rampant violence is in our communities, both here in America and around the world. I believe that the establishement of a United States Department of Peace can greatly help alleviate the many problems that we hear about on a daily basis. Our children deserve so much better. It is our job right here and now to build a better world. By establishing a US Department of Peace we are doing just that. Please get involved ... It's up to us to be the change that we wish for and the time is now to co-create it.

  Paula Abdul

  Time, Jobs, Children

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• I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.

  Mellody Hobson

  Wall, Community, Risk

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• We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers, bosses, developers, rich industry leaders are all Earth rapers . We must inflict economic sabotage on all Earth rapers.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Animal, Community, Leader

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• Por favor, acuérdate de los cientos de pequeños estómagos vacíos de nuestras comunidades. El invierno es una época dura para los pájaros y otras pequeñas criaturas, ya que la comida puede quedar enterrada bajo la nieve o el suelo helado. Esparce semillas en tu jardín o en los parques cercanos.

  Alex Pacheco

  Invierno, Animal, Nieve

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• People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, May

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.20, Paulist Press

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• Nuestra libertad también está incompleta, queridos compatriotas, mientras nos nieguen nuestra seguridad los delincuentes que se aprovechan de nuestras comunidades, que roban nuestros negocios y socavan nuestra economía, que ejercen su destructivo comercio de drogas en nuestras escuelas y que ejercen la violencia contra nuestras mujeres y niños.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, School, Long

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• Las mujeres en puestos de liderazgo pueden ayudar a restablecer el equilibrio y la integridad de nuestras comunidades.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Community, Balance, Roles

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• You know, when I was 14, a kid from our community said to me: ‘Everyone’s talking about you, Caleb. They say you’re the chosen one.’ That quote always made me so nervous, that I seriously started to think about my future. I changed a lot during that time.

  Caleb Followill

  Kids, Thinking, Talking

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• And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart].

  Jason Whitlock

  Heart, Black Youth, People

  "Columnist Who Inspired Bob Costas Drops New Bomb: 'The NRA Is the New KKK'". Interview with Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. December 3, 2012.

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• Me complace ver los progresos realizados en el proyecto del Hospital Regional de Windsor. Se trata de un proyecto importante para nuestra comunidad por el estímulo que supone para la economía local y por el papel vital que desempeñarán las nuevas instalaciones en la prestación de asistencia sanitaria y tratamientos de vanguardia a los residentes de Windsor.

  Sandra Pupatello

  Art, Play, Community

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• Los pobres de todos los colores son cada vez más pobres y nuestras comunidades son cada vez más tóxicas. Existe la idea errónea de que para que nuestra economía crezca tendremos que seguir como hasta ahora, porque limpiar el medio ambiente y mitigar el cambio climático es demasiado costoso. Pues bien, yo digo que el negocio de la pobreza es una factura demasiado cara para que la humanidad siga pagándola.

  Majora Carter

  Color, Gente, Comunidad

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• Creo que, siete generaciones más allá de nosotros, los que miran hacia atrás en nuestro tiempo encontrarán que fue el grito de los árboles que ayudó a reiniciar el sueño y fomentar la comprensión de que debemos soñar no sólo para nosotros mismos, sino también para nuestras comunidades y para todo lo que comparte la vida con nosotros en nuestra frágil burbuja de aire.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Believe, Air

  Robert Moss (2011). “Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom”, p.192, New World Library

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• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Our World, Community

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• I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It's the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, our community and our world.

  Maria Shriver

  Our World, Giving, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Men, Community

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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