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“I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.”

Years Has Beens I Can States Problem Home Law Community Leader Commitment Congress Locals Law Enforcement Enforcement Urgency Constituents Local Community Washington State

Author:Rick Larsen

“The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.”

Community Communication Commitment Bars Minorities

Author:Kevin Cook

“Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.”

School Purpose Process Community Democracy Students Commitment Partners Meaningful Engaging Involvement Facets Strengthening

Author:Adam Fletcher

“It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.”

Needs Community Commitment Locals Local Community

Author:Adam Braun

“Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.”

Together Individual Community Groups Conditions Commitment Delight Communicate Deeper Honestly Significant Mask Rejoice Mourn Composure

Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

“There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.”

Needs Real Ends Helping Community Numbers Violence Safe Commitment International Prosperity Cycles Passages International Community Words Of Sympathy Cycle Of Violence

Author:Kofi Annan

“Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.”

Father Community White Quality Boys Commitment Excellence Raised Calm Barack Abandoned Ambitious Grandparent Kenya Kansas Affable

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.”

Values Force Community Principles Goodness Commitment Enormous Corporate Citizenship Global Business

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Community Essentials Commitment Praise Loyalty Obsolete No Love Basic Things No Commitment

Book:Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.”

Knows World Doe Facts Wisdom Politics Community Economy Successful Theory Activity Normal Commitment Scientist Aim Fundamentals Assumption Liberalism Puzzles Novelty Subversive

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will emphasize our commitment "to humanity as a whole." The underlying ethical principle "is the need to respect the dignity and worth of all persons in the world community." Thinkers as diverse as Peter Singer and Hans Küng also emphasize the need for a new global ethic beyond nationalistic, racial, religious, and ethnic chauvinism.”

“The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.”

Want Community Support One Thing Special Type Drama Members Commitment Theater What You Want Loyalty Mutual Fierce Mutual Respect Wacky

Author:Monica Raymund

“In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.”

World Government Community Effort Millions Cost Commitment Dollars Million Dollars Smallpox World Health

Author:Liya Kebede

“We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.”

Needs Giving Law Community Liberty Rights Commitment Down And Track Terrorist Law Enforcement Enforcement Rule Of Law Nsa Undermining Basic Rights

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

“No matter the location of the build site, the religion, gender or ethnicity of the homeowners or volunteers, there is a sense of authentic community that links Habitat partners. It's exactly this kind of shared commitment that has sustained Habitat for three decades, and, similarly, it will be a renewed commitment that's necessary to meet the challenges ahead. I don't have to remind you that the need for decent housing is immense. Our tenacity is equally vast.”

Needs Kind Matter Three Community Challenges Commitment Gender Decades Partners Decent Links Immense Site Volunteer Location Housing Tenacity Ethnicity Habitat Homeowners

Author:Jonathan Reckford

“... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.”

Form Politics Community Space Commitment Feminist Oppression Progressive Rooted Solidarity Doomed Domination Dissent Critique

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.”

Ideas Running Belief President Community Brother Commitment Connections Decided Fascism Despotism Keepers

Author:Barack Obama

“This is a good deal for the United States, north Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. ...Only as it does, so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.”

“At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.”

“I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it isn't. It's the commitment, again, to stay with something - to go the duration. You can't walk away. It's like a marriage, only I think it's more difficult to divorce yourself from community than it is to a human being because the strands are interconnected and so various.”

Thinking Humans Facts Difficult Community Human Beings Walks Commitment Various Divorce Agreement Duration Strands Interconnected Shared Experiences

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."”

Long Artist Asks Goal Term Community Commitment Agree Fellows Excellence Athlete Long Term Mentor Disciple Homemaker Long Term Goals

Author:Michael Horton

“Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.”

Belief Given Goal Interest Community Support Commitment Solidarity Ongoing Occasional Sisterhood

Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.”

“Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most deeply held beliefs. To have such an anchor means being committed to a specific community. The only way Obama can overcome his sense of detachment and resolve his mother's dilemma is through a commitment to Christianity.”

Way Mean Mother Belief Left Community Christianity Commitment Overcoming Committed Resolve Detachment Respectful Anchors Dilemma

Author:Simon Critchley

“The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!”

Way Mean Culture Community Responsibility Commitment Plant Deeper Motto Personal Responsibility Psychedelic Operating Systems

Author:Terence McKenna

“On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage. Their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.”

“I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Home Names I Believe Realizing Community Our Lives Commitment Neighborhood Rooted Abstraction Our Community Desolation Specificity

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.”

People Matter Helping Light Community Principles Commitment Criticism Importance Mark Criticize Boost Criticizing Others

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.”

Done Process Community Deals Commitment Remains International Afghanistan Jury International Community Rebuilding

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.”

Ifs Hands Black Community Lines White Honor Commitment Vote Campaigns Winner Agendas Threatening Polls Provocative Watchers Black Community

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you know, when these troops come home and they become veterans and they go back into the civilian community, they're not always going through the VA system for medical care. They're going to show up at community hospitals and clinics.”

Knows Shows Home Care Community Millions Commitment Medical Coming Home Hospitals Nurse Troops Veteran Ptsd Civilians Clinic Medical Care

Author:Michelle Obama

“The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.”

“I've developed my anarchism, my critique of Marxism, which has been the most advanced bourgeois ideology I know of, into a community of ideas and ultimately a common sense of responsibilities and commitments.”

Knows Has Beens Ideas Community Common Responsibility Commitment Common Sense Ideology Marxism Anarchism Critique Bourgeois Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment and the great gifts of the West and the great gifts of white culture and white community be used for a better purpose than this nonsense of supporting Trump. I insist on that. I refuse to accept that. I refuse to accept that we are going to give over 60 million people over to this guy.”

“Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.”

Long Purpose Values Causes Term Community Models Commitment Profit Core Long Term Integrating Core Values Business Models

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.”

Men Doe Stills Community Sacrifice Men And Women Commitment Bravery Brave Locals Fulfilling Recognizing Brave Man Bearable Local Community Time Apart

Author:Mark Pryor

“I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.”

Want Believe Community Inspiring Company Commitment Charity Want Something

Author:Anita Roddick

“When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.”

People Should Hands Fall Grows Community Knowing Risk Commitment

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.”

Ifs Knows Mean Community Rights Willing Equal Mouths Commitment These Days Equal Rights

Author:Hal Sparks

“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.”

Wells Children Home School Community Habit Eating Commitment Our Children Access Well Being Dependent Promoting Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Rod Blagojevich

“Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.”

Should Values Community Business Vision Support Commitment Educational Customers Stores Walmart

Author:Sam Walton

“A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.”

Source: The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

“It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.”

Source: The Age of Paradox

“Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.”

People Thinking Knows Community Commitment Encounters Willingness Openness Proximity

Author:David Spangler

“Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity”

May Christian Jesus Community Accepting Lord Listening Draws Commitment Charity Deeds Active Companion Sacraments Dwelling Eucharist Proclamation Christian Community

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.”

“The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.”

Persons Character Community Numbers Honor Commitment Court Tyranny Awful Doom Distinguished Discretion Small Numbers Infamy Impeachment Confidential

Book:The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

“I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort, because the burden of making hard choices must not be Israel’s alone.”

Hard States America Choices Community Effort Security Commitment Democratic International Israel Burden Palestinian Judaism International Community

Author:Barack Obama

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