I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.
Roger Ross Williams
CommunityLookWantRoleI Came
And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.
Lawrence Halprin
FamilyCommunityVisionThinkFeel
We hunger for connection to a larger community.
David Shields
CommunityConnectionHungerLarger
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
Thomas Menino
BusinessCommunityHealthTogether
I think, the young people in the U.K., it's a vicious cycle of not feeling empowered to do anything within their community.
Holly Branson
CommunityPeopleThinkFeelingYoung
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.
Rachel Shenton
CommunityFeelInequalityDeafWill
In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.
Belinda Johnson
CommunityTimeI CanVolunteerStay
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
Hans Kung
ChangeSuccessCommunityChurchJust
Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity of what the international community has embarked upon.
Patricia Espinosa
CommunityWorldUrgencyAchieving
For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.
Ben Bernanke
CommunityBuildingOpportunities
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
H. Rap Brown
CommunityPeopleBlackWillDecide
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt
CommunityDeathWorldReadingKeep
While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
Zach LaVine
CommunitySchoolPeopleTreatVoice
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
Haley Lu Richardson
CommunitySchoolPlaySaidKidTwo
Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
Pankaj Mishra
CommunitySpeakThinkingPowerful
I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
Zoe Kravitz
LiveCommunityCoolWanderBrooklyn
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
Hannah Gadsby
CommunityTimeThinkGeniusArtist
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
Orrin Hatch
CommunityChildrenSacrificeFirst
All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
Yishan Wong
WorkChangeCommunityWorldBetter
Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
Gary Zukav
LifeLoveLiveCommunityCaringSee
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
Kate Winslet
LoveLiveCommunityChildrenPeople
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Oliver Tambo
CommunityFreedomPatriotismMan
A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'
Yvonne Orji
CommunityBlackChurchGoTherapy
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
Gabriel Byrne
EducationCommunityTogetherIdeas
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