“The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.” PeopleGivingBelieveCommunityMillionsTechnologyDoubtStreetsInformationChangedLike YouInternetEssentialsFindingsNewsEvolveDiscussionVisibleInsecurityNeighborhoodOnlineCrucialHopelessnessGiving InSpeaking Out Author:Nate Powell
“Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.” DifferentGrowing UpKnowingGrowingNeighborhoodPittsburgh Author:Wiz Khalifa
“It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable.” NumbersChangedImmigrationFranceNeighborhoodMassiveWhere You Are Author:Marine Le Pen
“In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesUsePastLawTermCitiesCitizensAreasAccountsElectionCleanMeetingsIncludingBlockCharacteristicsCandidatesNeighborhoodDivisionGood PeopleCriteriaCubaAssemblyHardworking Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.” ProblemRunningEnergyCan DoEconomyWindTownsFuelNeighborhoodDisappointedHouseholdFossilsFossil FuelHardwareSolar EnergyFabricateWind EnergyFuel Economy Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be served, the sick healed, and the dying comforted. None of that is going to change, and I'd wager that it's going to get better.” PoorDyingBuiltSickCommittedGet BetterNeighborhoodSacramentsHealedParishWagers Author:George Weigel
“Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems. I appear whether at their house or at their job site or some neighborhood gathering. I come there and listen to their story and I get hands on as I say. I don t give advice, I give people hope, I build their self-esteem, I motivate 'em. I inspire them because that's what I do.” PeopleGivingWritingSelfCountryStoriesProblemHandsJobsHouseWeekAdviceSelf EsteemInspireEsteemEmsBagsNeighborhoodPacksSiteGathering Author:Mr. T
“Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!” KnowsVictimNeighborhoodBrutesWhining Author:Maya Angelou
“People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.” PeopleBelieveAbilityInspiredNeighborhoodRealisticBelieve In You Author:Mary J. Blige
“I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.” PeopleGivingRealizingNeighborhood Author:Ice T
“The best way to build anything is to build it together and build it with diversity, because then you really get good ideas about how to be strong. And you need a strong foundation, which brings about the notion that all of us in the neighborhoods, I still consider myself to be one of them.” TogetherStrongDiversityNeighborhood Author:John Kasich
“Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.” RememberValuesLanguageFirst TimeMy FamilyNeighborhood Author:Cornel West
“Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn't have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work - and a lot of financial aid - I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.” SchoolGirlParentChanceCollegeHard WorkAmbitionFinancialAidsNeighborhoodMy AmbitionLaw SchoolCollege Degree Author:Michelle Obama
“I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.” ThinkingChildrenRememberObservationNeighborhood Author:Rebecca Stead
“As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like Highland Park, have long histories of barring Jewish and black people. That history that has always existed has come out of the shadows because of the social and political climate.” PeopleMindLongPoliticalBlackRacismShadowTrainTrackNeighborhoodBlack People Author:Christian Picciolini
“For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there.” PeoplePoliticalChallengesAcceptingOpinionShareCollegeFitWorshipEvidenceSocial MediaAssumptionNeighborhoodBubbles Author:Barack Obama
“I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I am committed to a view in the neighborhood - the view that the moral worth of one's actions depends on the quality of will expressed in them.” CharacterActionQualityMoralBehaviorCommittedNeighborhoodTraitsPredictableCharacter Trait Author:Nomy Arpaly
“I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us more and more is whether you have good prospects or you don't. Do you live a neighborhood where the schools are good? If you don't, your kids may not read until the time they're in third grade. Do you at least have access to a community college that will give you job training skills so that if you don't go for four years you will at least come out with a decent job and a decent wage. Too many people don't have that opportunity.” PeopleThinkingGivingKidsTodaySchoolOpportunityCommunityChallengesCollegeTrainingDecentNeighborhoodCommunity College Author:Condoleezza Rice
“You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote "smart" kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.” PeopleThinkingLongKidsCommunitySmartNeighborhoodGet AwayMeasure Of Success Author:Majora Carter
“Build. Transform. Love. These are words I use all the time as we speak about community building and even real estate development because these are the kind of communities, like, we want to show you don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one. And when people think about living in a neighborhood, they are not thinking about fight - the community of their dreams, they are not fighting in it, they are not struggling in it. It's not, "Oh, I gotta put on my armor." All the time. I don't want to live like that. I don't.” PeopleThinkingKindRealDreamMovingFightingSpeakCommunityStruggleBuildingNeighborhood Author:Majora Carter
“In really every area of the mayor's life, whether you're trying to fill in holes in the road, trying to keep your community safe, trying to have the robust neighborhood life, or trying to encourage the arts - really at every turn our job has gotten a lot harder under president Trump.” TryingArtPresidentCommunityNeighborhood Author:Peter Buttigieg
“Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood is, to your kids' school, to whether you're exposed to toxic chemicals on a daily basis. And as a New Yorker, I found it impossible not to notice and be bothered by the huge number of homeless people in the city, as well as by the segregation and gentrification that's all around you.” PeopleSchoolImpossibleDetermineNeighborhoodHomelessSegregationBotheredHomeless People Author:Solly Granatstein
“Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find themselves displaced to far-flung neighborhoods or to the streets. Racist discrimination in housing, which has been around for decades and follows centuries of slavery, has exacerbated the housing affordability crisis for people of color.” PeopleCrisisSlaveryDiscriminationNeighborhoodRacist Author:Solly Granatstein
“People need to get involved in their neighborhood groups and the many housing reform groups that are out there. We need to hold our elected officials accountable and push them to create legislation that protects tenants and keeps people in their homes. Our governments - local, state and federal - also need to allocate resources to enforce the fair housing laws that are already on the books.” PeopleBookHomeProtectNeighborhoodGet Involved Author:Solly Granatstein
“That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.” WorldMeanHouseComedyJokesFlyingNeighborhoodSwimmingPoolAbsurdityLanternsSwimming Pool Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg
“As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an old neighborhood in the center of city, and people would begin to point at you. People would begin to talk about you, spreading the word about the outsider who has wandered into their midst, look at him, he's got a camera, what's he doing, is this allowed, is this OK, how should be respond to him.” PeopleNeighborhoodOutsiders Author:Howard W. French
“We're seeing China push very hard in its immediate neighborhood, particularly in the maritime zone surrounding China, to kind of create a security zone for itself, trying to lock in the territorial and maritime gains that it can now, before a period of much more difficult choices arises some time in the 2020s.” TryingKindChoicesDifficultSecurityZoneNeighborhood Author:Howard W. French
“I hardly ever go back to Florida. It's really hard to go back. I mean, I hated it so much. I didn't grow up in a great neighborhood, and it puts me back in that feeling of, "I want to get out immediately." That was kind of the push and what still pushes me, that I don't want to end up back there.” KindMeanFeelingsGrowing UpHatedNeighborhood Author:Benjamin Booker
“Senator Cruz has also strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Brussels, and yesterday put out this statement saying, quote, "that we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized".” TerroristEmpoweringNeighborhoodLaw Enforcement Author:Sean Hannity
“After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like me, in my neighborhood, that could be here if they had more support from their families, better financial aid. But the gap is so wide once you miss that opportunity. So I was always interested in figuring out, How do you bridge that? I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm.” KidsSchoolOpportunitySupportMissingFinancialAidsLawyerFirmNeighborhoodMentoringLaw School Author:Michelle Obama
“Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, but for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. An education system flushed with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. We've defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own.” PeopleChildrenDifferentRealitySchoolBeautifulWealthShareStudentsPoliticianNeighborhoodEducation SystemYoung And Beautiful Author:Donald Trump
“The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse, you know you're not going to become a billionaire. And what my parents achieved working as a bartender and a maid at a hotel after arriving here with nothing, no education, no money. The first words my dad learned in English where I'm looking for a job.You know what my parents achieved? They owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. They retired with dignity and they left all four of their children better off than themselves.” ChildrenHomeDreamParentTeacherAchieveDadDignityPoliceMy DadFighterHotelNeighborhoodNurseAmerican DreamRetiredBillionaireNo MoneyPolice OfficerBartender Author:Marco Rubio
“I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won.” WinningGrowing UpEgoNeighborhood Author:Gene Weingarten
“You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!” MeanTodayPoliticalEvilPovertyHatredTransformationPrisonMiseryPhilosopherRadicalNeighborhoodMetaphysical Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“People call what we do "stretch music." This is our style, and one of the newer, in vogue ways of playing creative, improvised music. It really grew out of me trying to address something that I saw in my everyday life in my neighborhood - trying to develop that and refine that and excavate exactly what that was in a way that, when I communicated it, it was palpable and easily read. That started really early. Why it started was from something that I was really angry about.” PeopleTryingCreativeStyleEverydayNeighborhoodEveryday LifeVogue Author:Christian Scott
“Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that solution must be built from the ground up on the banks of this flooding river and it must be raised to a height higher than flood waters. Now what does that look like? It looks like policies and programs that cultivate healthy levels of physical activity, healthy dietary patterns in homes, in schools, in supermarkets, in neighborhoods, in clinics, in churches, in workplaces, throughout our society, every place we can reach people.” PeopleProblemHomeSchoolWaterChurchPolicyHealthySolutionsProgramSurpriseNeighborhoodFloodWorkplaceObesityHealthy Diet Author:David Katz
“I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.” ChildrenImportantKidsSchoolParentPartyWorryHigh SchoolAlcoholNeighborhoodBeing A ParentGood Neighbor Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?” WorldKindDonePurposeWishExistenceTomorrowChanging The WorldNeighborhoodLease Author:Les Wexner
“When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive. I'm on alert, and I can be fresh.” Neighborhood Author:Chantal Akerman
“My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.” NextNaturalDarkStreetsInstinctGlassesNeighborhoodBoastCountyShamefulNatural InstinctDark Glasses Author:Russell Baker
“One thing I had on my side when it came to How to Make It in America is that I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker. Filming in New York... I'm so thankful and humbled by the whole experience. A lot of it takes place in old neighborhood; I'm an East Village kid, so I get to see my old friends from the neighborhood, my family still lives there.” KidsMy FamilyNeighborhoodOld FriendsStill Life Author:Victor Rasuk
“When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.” ThinkingWorryPrivacyNeighborhoodCell Phone Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.” KidsActionSchoolBlackSupportTakenCompareConsiderationNeighborhoodAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:William Julius Wilson
“For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS." No! Let's get rid of the SS!” WritingCommonArmyPoliceNeighborhoodPolice Officer Author:Ted Rall
“The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We know in the United States of America there is no difference in drug use between black, white and Latinos. But if you're Latino in the United States of America, you're about twice as likely to be arrested for drug use than if you're white. If you're black, you are about four times as likely to be arrested if you're African American than if you are white. This drug war has done so much to destroy, undermine, sabotage families, communities, neighborhoods, cities.” PeopleWarDoneBlackCommunityDrugAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodLatinoWar On DrugsSabotage Author:Cory Booker
“That's like a dream come true. To be able to hire friends, to shoot a movie in the neighborhood where you grew up. To have it released. It's actually a dream. How many people can say that their first film got distributed and out there? What are the odds? My persistence made the odds work for me.” PeopleDreamFilmPersistenceNeighborhoodDreams Come True Author:Louis Lombardi
“Americans have a hard time writing moms. I'll get a script and everything's really great and well-drawn, but the mom is like stock footage, they go and get that out. They plug it in, this idea of "mother." You could lift moms out of any script, no matter what the culture, what the neighborhood, what the economic status, and you could switch them around, and they'd be the same person. I think it's because most people don't really have a human idea, a specific life that they attach to who their mother was. Their mother was there for them, so it either gets deified, or the opposite.” PeopleThinkingWritingMotherCultureEconomicMomHard TimesNeighborhoodReally Great Author:Alfre Woodard
“When I was younger - in elementary school - my parents are both teachers, so we moved around a lot. For the most part we always lived, before we settled south of Dallas, we always lived in the outskirts of city suburbs, kind of in these weird, desolate neighborhoods. Very brown and flat settings. I love Texas, I love the openness.” KindSchoolParentTeacherMovedNeighborhoodOpennessElementary School Author:Sarah Jaffe
“I think when every household in almost every neighborhood can produce what it needs without going through the market, we're going to undergo a huge change in the elevation of the community to the center of the city, and the elimination of the factory.” ThinkingCommunityNeighborhood Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Sometimes if I go to a show, someone will recognize me. But the neighborhood I live in, there's so many people who are in successful bands that it's really not a big deal. And I like that. I like the energy of going to lunch with a friend, seeing the three dudes from Yeasayer walking in, and saying hi to them. I think that's neat.” PeopleThinkingSometimesEnergySuccessfulWalkingNeighborhoodNeat Author:Chris Baio