“My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.” PeopleGivingWould BeAbleWishCommunitySkillsSolutionsTrainingToolsBridgesGasGapsCoal Author:Shelley Moore Capito
“Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentCommunityGunCapacityMagazinesOwnersRegisterDon't TrustFirearmsGun Owners Author:Cody Wilson
“I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.” PeopleKnowsWorldFirstsI CanCountryStatesPresidentCommunityDemocraticDefeatInternationalMinistersAdmirationAfghanistanCouncilTalibanNatoUnifiedInternational CommunityAfghanHead Of State Author:Condoleezza Rice
“One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina, remember the families of the nine victims, how they brought a community together during the worst atrocity in our state's history, i am thankful that I live in a country where forgiveness can be seen in the worst of conditions.” PeopleCountryStatesTogetherRememberPoliticalProcessCommunityWorstConditionsForgivenessVictimSouthNineAtrocitiesCarolinaSouth CarolinaI Am Thankful Author:Tim Scott
“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.” PeopleFirstsWellsTwoChoicesIndividualSpeakCommunityPathFireGreenWornProphecyOur ChoicesTwo Paths Author:Winona LaDuke
“In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.” PeopleIdeasGovernmentSchoolTogetherIndividualCommunityTeacherBroadsCollaborationGuidelinesFinlandImplementing Author:Andy Hargreaves
“The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsMomentsCommunityPerspectiveMajorsFirst TimeWake UpExtraordinaryLondonDisabilityWakingCentreUnlimitedFestivalsMoments In TimeGreetingsPeople With Disabilities Author:Charles Hazlewood
“I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.” PeopleWayUseWould BeUsedFeltCommunityDecidedWho I AmUsed To BeDiscoveringOutletsYoutubeBulliedBeing BulliedUnmotivated Author:Bethany Mota
“Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsMotivationEnergyCommunityWalksQualityCreativeEnvironmentAirEffectsMovementSourceNegativeAtmosphereVitalityContagiousAurasCreative Energy Author:Shaun McNiff
“Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.” PeopleWayWantStatesFactsUseProblemTurnsForceCommunityCommonCoreSatisfiedLocalsAgencyDepartmentThroatRequirementsSuggestionsMandatesLocal CommunityCommon Core Author:Marco Rubio
“Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.” PeopleWayWellsLooksHas BeensLightAbleBlackCommunityWhiteDestructiveBlack PeopleAllegianceLightersProminentThis SocietyBlack Community Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available to you whether it be a dance class or whether you do really good in school and you can get a scholarship. So if you just put your mind to it and if you educate people enough and they know that they can find resources to help them get to where they need to go then that's really important.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsTryingMindImportantEnoughHelpingDreamSchoolYoungBornCommunityClassResourcesAvailableEducateUrbanScholarshipDance Class Author:Adrienne Bailon
“I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeRememberFilmCommunityMusicianUniversityExperimentation Author:Neil Farber
“To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.” PeopleWantFeelsFeelingsCommunityNiceShareNice Feeling Author:Jack Johnson
“Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenMadeCan DoRealizingCommunitySituationRolesTakenRightsSeeingMovementOughtEqualMen And WomenHeyEqual Rights Author:Julian Bond
“I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. When they have risen to public prominence on the backs of the gay community that they are part of and they prey on, I think that's absolutely deserving of outing.” PeopleThinkingCommunityGayGainsFavorsPreyDeservingRisenGay PeopleProminenceGay Community Author:Rachel Maddow
“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.” PeopleWorldShouldBelieveDoeStatesGivenForceI BelieveNationsCommunityDecisionCitiesHavensDon't BelieveCompromiseInferiorsGiven UpDefective Author:Jeremiah Wright
“I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveCommunityEvents Author:Andy Serkis
“Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.” PeopleArtCommunityDarknessArt IsDemonWrestlingOur Community Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.” PeopleThinkingCultureCommunityChurchCitiesGrewGrew UpUnderstoodTownsMeant To BeGracious Author:Shane Harper
“I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth suffer. We have no done our job. I'm saying anybody 55 and up. We didn't teach people the basic things.” PeopleDoneJobsSufferingCommunityTeachMissingYouthCoupleEldersBasic Things Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal. And that includes people in our minority community; that includes people who feel as though they don't have a chance to move up.” PeopleThinkingFeelsImportantSeemsMovingGrowthCommunityChanceDealsEconomicKeysShadowFairsMinoritiesReach OutEconomic Growth Author:John Kasich
“When I was little, I wanted to be a mother, because that's who I saw. I saw my mom caring for me. I didn't play doctor. I didn't play lawyer. I didn't have those visions until I was in college, meeting people who were doing those things. That's why we're trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children's lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference.” PeopleTryingChildrenLittlesPlayWantedMotherFatherCommunityDifferencesVisionSawsTeacherCollegeMomDoctorsMeetingsMy MomCaringLawyerMaking A DifferenceBeing A Father Author:Michelle Obama
“It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.” PeopleCommunityStepsWillingMental HealthMedicalEmploymentStep Up Author:Michelle Obama
“I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.” PeopleHas BeensReasonLastsDiesCultureNationsCommunityDifferencesUnitedKillingJewMaking A DifferenceGenocideHolocaustUnited Nations Author:Elie Wiesel
“People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.” PeopleNeedsNextCommunity Author:Wendell Berry
“It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.” PeopleThinkingMenWould BeCommunityPowerfulStreetsPositionGayNotionIdiotProductiveHelpfulComing OutLiving OnGay MenPreconceived Notions Author:Madonna Ciccone
“For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.” PeopleWayPlayTogetherYoungGuyBlackCommunityWhiteExampleModelsHarmonySettingSettingsWhite GuysOld GuysYoung GuysBlack GuysBeing OldSetting An Example Author:Bill Frisell
“There are tons of gay issues that are important, from gay marriage to adoption rights to work-place discrimination and more... but I think the biggest gay issue is the level of involvement of the gay community to demand change. So many gays think that other gays will take care of it. To fix this, people need to realize that they CAN make a change, but no one person can do it alone.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPersonsImportantCareCan DoRealizingCommunityLevelsIssuesRightsGayDemandTake CareDiscriminationAdoptionInvolvementMaking ChangesGay MarriageGay CommunityWork Place Author:Tyler Oakley
“My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.” PeopleWarStatesFeltCommunityUnitedUnited StatesLonelyContactIsolatedInteractionUnits Author:Assata Shakur
“How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.” PeopleHelpingCommunityMillionsStreetsLovely Author:Assata Shakur
“I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.” PeopleTryingLooksIdeasSpeakCommunityInvolvedClaimsTendenciesSympathetic Author:Bill Nye
“I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingStatesProblemDifficultCommunityUnitedUnited StatesPolicyDependsHatredPrejudiceSolveTerroristDialogueDiscussionCubaExtremistCuban Author:Fidel Castro
“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.” PeopleHomeNightCertainOrderCommunityRoomsNumbersStreetsFitRacismMetaphorHighwaysInfrastructurePublic LifeClassism Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.” PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesGuySexCommunityWhiteMorningPrisonClockEvery MorningMurdererInventingToastsHorrificOffendersCommunity ServiceWhite GuysSex OffendersArsonistsInventing Stories Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.” PeopleWayBookEndsTogetherYoungCommunityLevelsPopulationHarry PotterPottersComing Together Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.” PeopleWorldKindPersonsWholeStoriesCommunityAcceptedIsolation Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.” PeopleWorldSocialProcessCommunityBehindsEffectsDespairMessagesWeightThrowingCandleCynicismSocial ChangeLightingGorbachev Author:Ram Dass
“There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.” PeopleWorldFeelsBitsCommunityTinyIsolatedFeedingLoving You Author:Anne Lamott
“Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.” PeopleHas BeensUsedNamesCommunityPrisonBetrayalTreatedColleagues Author:Nelson Mandela
“Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be perceived as having money to be isolated in the strangest ways from most of the community around us. It reaches the point where a person with money spends a great deal of time reacting to people who are reacting to the money.” PeopleWayNeedsPersonsFactsCommunityDealsMaking MoneyIsolatedReacting Author:Richard Bach
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.” PeopleProblemAgeCommunityLosingUnderstoodTraditionTasksOrganizationLocalsOld AgeTiesIsolationRetirementWasting TimeSpouseAssistanceLifelongAccompanySinglesExtended FamilyAmerican Tradition Author:Judith Martin
“China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.” PeopleWorldWantLooksMadeBigsCommunityEffortInternationalChinaAcceptedOlympicsInternational Community Author:Ai Weiwei
“I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.” PeopleUsedCommunityRocksDisconnectedHermitsIndie Rock Author:John Darnielle
“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.” PeopleWayWellsRealityLawMotherFatherLeftCommunityKnownVisionGroupsPoetClothesArtisticAlternativesGreekWell KnownHippieIn-lawsWeavingArtistic VisionFather In Law Author:Anne Waldman
“I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.” PeopleThinkingImportantSelfHomeAgeYoungGirlCommunityWatchesTeachTvsInvolvedLessonsSafeSummerSelf ConfidenceCampsLife LessonNew ThingsYoung AgeNew FriendsConfidence And CourageMeeting New Friends Author:Shawn Johnson
“When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.” PeopleKindSchoolUsedCertainTermCommunityConnectionsZoneTemporaryThinkerSufiAutonomousEthosGinsberg Author:Anne Waldman
“I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.” PeopleWorldIdeasParentCommunityConnectionsMy FavoriteGreekDiscourseWaltFavorite Words Author:Anne Waldman
“I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.” PeopleWayStarsSoundCommunityCitiesNew OrleansMemphis Author:Joel Plaskett
“I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.” PeopleShouldBelieveGovernmentStrongCommunityResourcesRootsAvailableBelieverGrass Author:Liane Holliday Willey