One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years. - Edward Abbey War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. - Alfred Adler FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. - Felix Adler Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. - Sherman Alexie Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. - Sherman Alexie I suggested that we might buy one hundred seats for one of Rochester's symphony concerts. We would select a concert in which the music wo...

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. - Emily Greene Balch It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any large scale is either figure out a way of getting yourself associated in the audience's mind with their pieties and their sense of 'community,' i.e. ram it home that you're one of THEM; or, alternately, deck and bake yourself into an image configuration so blatant or outrageous that you become a culture myth. - Lester Bangs Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends. - Malcolm Boyd It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans an...

The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end of this period did the Church comprise as many people as the far-flung Jewish community numbered (five million) in the Roman Empire. Christianity developed an intense rivalry with Judaism, and for many decades was compared to the Jews as a minority. This accounts for the intense anti-Semitism that became enshrined in Christianity by 200 A.D. - Norman F Cantor I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. - Joel Coen I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. - Anita Diament November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. - Anita Diament Since 1985, I have written abou...

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. - Kofi Annan In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. - Ulrich Beck In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies. - Jim Costa Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video. - Pico Iyer The excellence and efficiency of any nation or of our global community at large is driven by the collective empowerment of ind...

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week. - Margaret Smith Court I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels. - Vincent Frank

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities. - Vincent Frank In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. - Thomas Menino Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration. - Alan Mollohan

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. - Tom Peters What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. - Paul Wellstone

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. - Spencer Bachus What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. - Susan George The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. - Stephanie Tubbs Jones

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. - John Ensign Last winter I tried to talk Jesse into leaving. Not anymore. I've grown to cherish the freedom, the openness of this land, the wall I plastered, the trees I planted. I can see God using me. Homesteading, building a community with people I care about.. - Catherine Richmond

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. - Bell Hooks If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege. - Bell Hooks