Community Quotes - Page 132

I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.

I trust that the space for LGBT community in Singapore will continue to grow, and that we will eventually have equality and freedom, even as the world begins to recognise that LGBT rights are human rights.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.

The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].

On the Internet, you can form a community without having to go through the trouble of meeting anyone.

...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends"

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11, it became important for those stories and that human element, for the Muslim, the Hindu, the Sheikh communities to be heard. That's what I hope I get at with the music.

My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

I'm going to do everything I can to restore trust and build back those bonds between the police and communities.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.