Community Quotes

"Technology is best when it brings people together."

Matt Mullenweg

"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."

bell hooks

"A library is a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

Neil Gaiman

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

Ryunosuke Satoro

"Society is not a mere sum of individuals."

Émile Durkheim

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

Jane Addams

"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."

"A person is a person through other persons."

Desmond Tutu

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller

"The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

Bill Gates

"We were born to work together like the feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower."

"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."

Margaret J. Wheatley

"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."

Gwendolyn Brooks

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

Kurt Vonnegut

“We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.”

“We can demand what we deserve, and together we have built a movement where everyday New Yorkers recognise themselves in our vision of democracy.”

“I care very deeply about Jewish safety, and I look forward to rooting out antisemitism across the five boroughs and protecting Jewish New Yorkers and every New Yorker who calls the city home.”

“Antisemitism is not simply something that we should talk about. It's something that we have to tackle.”

“When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. There's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.”

“It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what we were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.”

“At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.”

“None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.”

“That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.”

“We were raised in a community where we were taught to see a world beyond just ourselves. To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people.”

“I grew up in a community where people took care of each other.”