“The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.” MindUsedHateCommunityComfortableComputerProgramHatredI HateLoathingInsistenceAnimosityPompousOutreach Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities” PeopleGovernmentCarePoliticalPoliticsCommunityPromiseProgramTake CareBunchOrganize Author:Neil Young
“Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.” PeopleGivingMadeSelfCountrySchoolCommunityPovertySelf EsteemYouthConfidenceProgramDignityEducationalSelf WorthDevelopingRealisingDeveloping CountriesRural CommunitiesOxfam Author:Scarlett Johansson
“Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.” EndsCountryHelpingCommunityWealthSupportShareChildhoodResourcesProgramOrganizationStrongerPreparedHungerHungryLocalsOur CountryAbundanceExcessCommodityFood Banks Author:John Travolta
“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.” ArtWould BeHouseCommunityQualityCompanyComedyMediaDiversityIntellectualProgramIntelligentStriveDepthRangeArticlesProvidingOpen MindOpen MindedBreadthGroundbreakingPopular Movie Author:Lachlan Murdoch
“When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.” FirstsPoliticalArtistCultureCommunityTakenMusicianFirst TimeProgramRoseAthleteAppreciationAfrican AmericanThinkerAmerican CultureRenaissanceMentoringHarlemProminenceHarlem Renaissance Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.” WellsDifferentGirlThreeCommunityRiskGroupsWeekProgramSantaVeniceMonicaSanta MonicaCommunity Centers Author:Lisa Bonet
“In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play” LittlesStatesPlayBlackCommunityStudentsPoetCommunicationInvolvedProgramInvitedSan FranciscoInfluentialCampusSemesterCleaver Author:Danny Glover
“I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.” AbleCommunityAdultsProgramGratefulI Am GratefulCommunity ServiceCitations Author:Jameis Winston
“When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.” PeopleIfsMenKindPhilosophyTogetherPastPoliticalBlackCommunityChurchReligiousMastersProgramOrganizationNationalismBlack PeoplePreachingPastorLiftingCivicsFraternalNaacpBlack Nationalism Author:Malcolm X
“We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.” WayTogetherNationsCommunityEnvironmentProgramClimateClimate ChangeRationalReviewsOrderlyDrawn Together Author:George H. W. Bush