Best choices & community Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.”

Wells May Stills Today Lasts Choices Peace Community Chance Mankind Chaos Violent Annihilation Coexistence Last Chance

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”

Source: The Idea of Justice

“Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.”

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Author:Johnny Otis

“We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.”

World Way Looks Made Country Reason Problem Certain Choices Community Deals Poverty Serious Illness Deeper Mental Illness Destroying Incarceration

Author:John Legend

“To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.”

Mean Reality Action Choices Individual Community Forget Consequence Abstract Concrete Our Choices Actions Have Consequences

Author:China Mieville

“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”

“Community living is about having the same rights and choices as everyone else.”

Choices Community Rights Community Living

Author:Ari Ne'eman

“Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.”

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Author:Brandi Chastain

“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.”

Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.”

Wisdom Choices Politics Given Community Leadership Work Policy Needed Office Strategy Former Serving Texas Senate Appreciated New Friends Washington Dc

Author:Ted Cruz

“We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.”

Source: Saving Our Sons

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”

Source: Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.”

People Firsts Wells Two Choices Individual Speak Community Path Fire Green Worn Prophecy Our Choices Two Paths

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.”

People States Together Past Political Choices Politics Community Chance Groups Activity Ancient Clubs Arrangements Attending Hereditary Lineage

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.”

Enough Spiritual Desire Choices Energy Fear Community Despair Flow Intention Recognition Generosity Mutual Cynicism Fairness Paranoia

Author:Michael Lerner

“So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.”

Way Humans Persons Reality Christian Lying Choices Jesus Community Christianity Journey Creation Embrace Destination

Book:It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian

Source: It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian

“Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.”

People Pain Choices Causes Community Mistake Forgiveness Intention Confusion Making Mistakes Flaws Reconcile Admitting

Author:Christina Baldwin

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