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Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Book by Diane Kalen-Sukra · 4 quotes · Civility, Democracy, Community

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“In a democracy, we are all trusted cup-bearers to each other, commissioned by our common purpose and citizenship to be city builders and community builders.”

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“As much as we like to say "every vote counts", a much richer understanding of what creates and maintains thriving democracies is "every heart counts".”

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“Culture doesn't just change because it ought to. It changes because we decide to honestly assess the values, behaviours, and systems that are not working for us—not helping us thrive and flourish as a community—and replace them with ones that do.”

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“Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.”

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