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We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community. -- Hawa Abdi
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. -- Alan Autry
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. -- Ted Cruz
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. -- Ted Cruz
I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected. -- Kathy Freston
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. -- Edward Sapir
Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community. -- Steve Harvey
I feel we all have a stake in our community as much as we do in our own spirits, and seeking avenues of generosity is the direct path to peace among us. -- Shari Arison
I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life. -- George Eastman
My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids. -- Bryan Stevenson
Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community. -- Louis Farrakhan
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. -- Cesar Chavez
Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League. -- Tony Dungy
I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility. -- Ted Cruz
Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community. -- Darell Hammond
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. -- Jonathan Sacks
I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community. -- Chris Van Hollen
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. -- Tavis Smiley
In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others. -- Yehuda Berg
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. -- Michael Bloomberg
I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe. -- Colleen Hanabusa
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility. -- Ted Cruz
Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season. -- Katori Hall
When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that. -- Wendy Davis
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. -- Ted Cruz
Our community of contagion really is a world community. -- Eula Biss
Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens. -- Cindy McCain
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community. -- Ross Perot
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34. -- Erwin McManus
The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture. -- Steven Biko
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community. -- Nelson Mandela
Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community. -- Wendell Pierce
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community. -- Joan Larkin
We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain. -- Chris Brogan
We as a global community are only as strong as our weakest link. -- Richard E. Besser
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. -- Ted Stevens
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. -- Ted Stevens
Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us. -- David Suzuki
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. -- Valerie Solanas
I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry. -- Clinton D. Powell
In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life. -- Kym Whitley
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system. -- Julie Bishop
The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality. -- Rodney Mullen
We cannot afford to not stick and work together for the betterment of our community. -- T.I.
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community. -- Melissa Bean
Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better. -- T.I.
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. -- M. Scott Peck
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community. -- Jerry Bridges
My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream. -- Nicole Ari Parker
In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society. -- Bill Courtney
Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. -- Henri Nouwen
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. -- Shane Claiborne
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. -- David Whyte
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture. -- Paul Tsongas
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same. -- Leymah Gbowee
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. -- Ken Mehlman
Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.' -- Ron Conway
When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways. -- Rick Warren
Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well. -- John C. Maxwell
[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways. -- Candy Chang
No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need. -- Jon Taffer
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. -- Billy Graham
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change. -- Terry Tempest Williams
I want to bring a voice back to the community. I think we haven't received our fair share of resources. -- Jose Peralta
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging. -- Patch Adams
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars. -- Tina Thompson
The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women. -- Tony Evans
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... -- Evo Morales
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. -- George Will
When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community. -- Tim Murphy
Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences. -- William J. Clinton
If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. -- Carl Sagan
I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community. -- Hamza Yusuf
We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community. -- Dani Shapiro
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. -- Sargent Shriver
I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about. -- Ed Gordon
This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community. -- Catherine E. Pugh
As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV. -- Jay Ellis
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study. -- Timothy Keller
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet. -- Marvin Sapp
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. -- Henry Louis Gates
We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people. -- Louis Farrakhan
We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community. -- Tom Rath
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. -- Clayton Christensen
Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it. -- Amy Pascal
I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police. -- Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. -- Jonathan Sacks
We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country. -- Chris Christie
I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. -- Hal Sparks
We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain. -- John M. Perkins
The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community. -- Gavin Newsom
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. -- Mel Carnahan
My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us. -- Himanshu Suri
My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget. -- Felicia Day
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do. -- Neil Portnow
First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world. -- Laozi
We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community. -- Maya Angelou
Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers. -- Grace Napolitano
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied. -- Boris Trajkovski
This is very positive for our community...The educational facilities in our area are enjoying advanced broadband services over a state-of-the-art 4G wireless network -- Larry Gates
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community. -- Dale Jamieson
For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country. -- Claire McCaskill
People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges. -- Gordon Gee
If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital -- Bruce H. Lipton
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. -- Cory Booker
Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. -- Jean Vanier
This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children. -- Michele Bachmann
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table. -- Henri Nouwen
We believe that government in Britain should improve the quality of people's lives and improve the quality of our public services in every local community. -- Charles Kennedy
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly. -- Gerald Horne
Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic. -- Francis Schaeffer
Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community. -- Juliet B. Schor
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests. -- Marilynne Robinson
It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones. -- Sergey Lavrov

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