“Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.” MenYearsSeemsCommunityWealthVirtueCrimeTenYears AgoAimWorthyEvery ManCombinationRevelationsOutrageAcquisitionStigmaRailwayRedeemingAim Of Life Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.” IfsWorldFeelsYearsDoneWould BeDifficultCommunityChurchReligiousViolenceGroupsGayMembersYears AgoOrganizationTouchingOur CommunityGay Community Author:Troy Perry
“To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.” YearsBelievePersonsEarthChristianJesusCommunityHugeYears AgoInvisibleLeapHistoricLeap Of FaithChristian Community Author:Richard Rohr
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...” MenWorldNeedsYearsFeelingsSufferingCausesCommunityJusticeCompassionViolenceThis WorldColorYears AgoHatredGentleGreekAccomplishedDivisionBulletsMartyrOur CommunityAssassinsLove And Compassion Author:Robert Kennedy
“The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.” YearsKindCountryPoliticalCommunityMilitaryExampleWasteYears AgoTestsDiedCleanEnvironmentalAbsenceGasNervesValleysSheepPollutionSkullsOur CommunityReservationsPolitical Will Author:Winona LaDuke
“Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?” WantShouldYearsCommunityProgressYears AgoFiftyIllegalLegislation Author:Noam Chomsky
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina
“I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.” YearsBookLightGuyCommunityFiveYears AgoDiedFive YearsAffectedSaltSecularLambsRoaringSalt And Light Author:John C. Maxwell
“I am so proud to be running with another strong history-making woman, Hillary Clinton, to be president of the United States. I'm proud because her vision of stronger together, building an economy that works for all, not just those at the top, being safe in the world, not only with a strong military, but also strong alliances to battle terrorism and climate change, and also to build a community of respect, just like Barbara Johns tried to do 65 years ago. That's why I'm so proud to be her running mate.” WorldYearsStatesRunningTogetherStrongPresidentCommunityUnitedVisionUnited StatesEconomyMilitaryBuildingProudBattleSafeYears AgoStrongerClintonClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismMatesAlliancesBarbaraStronger TogetherHistory Making Author:Tim Kaine
“I knew I wanted to shoot in Japan early on. Years ago, we did a Japan segment in "The Community Project," and at the time I felt it was one of the better Japan segments ever captured.” YearsWantedFeltCommunityProjectsYears AgoJapanCaptured Author:Travis Rice
“I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.” YearsLastsCertainCommunityReligiousIssuesFocusMovementAmountCoupleAreasYears AgoCatholicEnvironmentalProtestantsEvangelicalJewish CommunityReligious Community Author:Bill McKibben
“The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce, the first place he went was Caterpillar. I don't think he's forgotten, and the labor movement didn't react. Even radical labor historians didn't remember. It was only 15 years ago, after all, but that's a real triumph of propaganda in many ways.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsKindRealShowsRememberCommunityInterestingSupportMovementYears AgoLaborUnionsForgottenRadicalBarackTriumphPropagandaChicagoHistorianSolidarityWorkforceCaterpillarsOrganizerLabor Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.” IfsYearsDifferentSometimesMovingCommunityPovertyFiveEasierRacismYears AgoWho You AreTerrorThirtyFive YearsImmigrantsTargetLgbtCommunity Centers Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.” IfsYearsIdeasSeemsWould BeFacesGuyBornCommunityEconomyRocksCenturyTelevisionHairSittingConceptsYears AgoGood ThingsGiantsFarmersWorthlessJumpingThat GuyFrogsSuperfluousPastries Author:Conan O'Brien
“I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.” PeopleYearsBelieveMayChildrenHas BeensStatesDoneCommunityUnitedUnited StatesCenturyMembersYears AgoImmigrationQuartersGrandchildrenChildren And Grandchildren Author:Newt Gingrich
“We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?” YearsHumansMightScienceUniverseGivenSocialCommunityImaginationMillionsProgressSocietyCenturyThousandYears AgoIntelligentMereBillionsThousand YearsTechnologicalHuman SocietySocial ProgressIntelligent Life Author:Paul Davies