Top 1200 Community Organizing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Avoid organizing investment team into silos.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

Twitter was an alternative community for me. A different kind of community. I knew I was making people angry. But it didn't matter, they weren't my community. But the longer I was on Twitter and the more I came to know these people, to like and respect them, the more I could see the empathy and grief and sorrow they were expressing.

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.

Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied.

When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don't generally do that with any other jobs. We don't talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

I don't think the intelligence community itself institutionally is losing its focus; it will continue to do its job; continue to be vigilant on all issues that are besetting us. I think the greater danger is just the preoccupation of the policy community, and how much attention they pay to what the intelligence community is telling them.

In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers, that is, in principle, of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good.

... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

I always have believed in the value of the diversity and resilience and just, really, the different skill sets that our community has. But we've never been able to find the right platform and find the right environment for us as a community - for us as a professional community.

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

Ride It' did it for me. Not only did the Asian community love it, but the black community and the white community got to hear about it. The song became such a big hit for me and got me noticed by the CEOs of Cash Money in America.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

What is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy - nothing. The leading view today is 'It Takes a Village,' that even love can be outsourced to teachers, coaches, clubs and mentors. The truth is that it does take a village, a community, but a community of families working, playing, cooperating and facing obstacles together, not a community of government institutions.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.

Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.

You can expect to see a robust discussion and representation of those issues throughout the convention program. Not just from the nominee, but through other vehicles as well. Expect to see the African-American community, the Latino community, the LGBT community, and others represented on stage and in the substance of our policies throughout the week.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.