~ A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul. ~
~ The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ~
~ If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. ~
~ In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. ~
~ The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed. ~
~ 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. ~
~ A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ~
~ A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. ~
~ Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ~
~ It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual ~
~ The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ~
~ I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. ~