Top 121 Our Community Quotes

Brooklyn has a strong, historic relationship with both music and basketball, and I look forward to working with BSE Global to find new ways to deepen and celebrate that relationship within our community.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it’s the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

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.

What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren’t afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

I have always had faith in our community because I’ve seen us come together in so many ways before, even during the most difficult of times.

I truly enjoy hearing from our community about the issues that matter most. It’s conversations like these that shape our community and drive my work to pursue common-sense solutions that protect our families, lower health care costs, uplift our veterans, and support our local businesses.

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.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them… to see this happen to our city and our community.

One of the things that doesn’t come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God… I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with… because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don’t love each other. That we don’t fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn’t mean perfect. Perfect is boring.

As San Antonio Spurs players, we have a responsibility for our community.

You’ve got to have sustained success, you’ve got to stand for certain things in our community and I think that’s what people are going to see with Coach Schiano.

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.

The CDC is an integral part of our community and on the frontlines of our pandemic response, and we must continue to give them more tools to help keep our families safe and healthy.

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.

It would have been great if there were a trauma center located in our community, where you could access grief counseling and be able to address it in a healthy manner.

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class in our community. I witnessed hope turn to hardship as a once-thriving city reckoned with a fast-changing world.

Pride is a time to celebrate our community, publicly display our love for one another, and continue our protest of equality that stems back to the BlackCat and Stonewall Riots.

Every officer, every deputy, every agent we lose is one too many. It’s a loss to our organizations, of course, it’s a loss to our community, and most importantly, it’s a devastating loss to the loved ones they leave behind.

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.

I will always be a voice of reason for our community, our state and our nation.

I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to secure strong enforcement mechanisms, protections for workers and the environment, and provisions to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.

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.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who ‘we’ is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

We still live in a country where there’s disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think activism within the queer community continues to need to focus on those issues first.

Loom.ai will accelerate making human co-experiences more immersive and personal, adding world-class facial animation technology as part of Roblox’s efforts to provide expressive emotive actions to avatars that will enable deeper connections for our community.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

As I have written before, one of my favorite parts of my job as CEO of Moda Operandi is the opportunity I get to explore international fashion scenes to discover new talent, and then being able to introduce these designers to our community of fashion-savvy customers worldwide.

I don’t agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.

I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.

‘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.

I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven’t been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires – a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.

We should be on the forefront on this focus on justice, and do all we can to care about our community, to care about our society, and to make our communities a much better place.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis’s Head Start Program provides child development and comprehensive wellness services in a safe and nurturing environment. The program is a pillar of our community in Missouri’s First District.

To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn’t apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn’t work.

I just thought I could broaden my impact and my reach by starting a non-profit and putting investment into our community.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

I am excited Sundial and Unilever have created this partnership, rooted in a purpose-driven ethos, that represents an incredible opportunity to take our Community Commerce economic empowerment and impact model to another level.

In our community, we are encouraged to take up professions like medicine or engineering that offer consistency and job security. Acting is not a ‘real’ profession.

There’s a perception out there that Airbnb doesn’t want there to be rules. We think rules would be fantastic. We think rules would help our community, but not necessarily the rules that have simply existed for decades.

Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

What I would love to happen is to have people at the top of their game – straight, gay, cisgender, transgender, whatever – to volunteer with us, as long as they have something of value to offer and they see the value in our community.

Folks in our community have a lot of daily pressures to deal with. Worrying about the rising cost of lifesaving medications shouldn’t be one of them. They deserve elected leaders who will fight for them, not special interests, and that is exactly what I will continue to do.

We need to band together in solidarity. There’s so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that’s where I’m going to put a significant amount of input.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn’t count. I’m trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

I’m proud to be a member of the creative class, particularly here in Atlanta where the entertainment and creative industries form such an integral part of our economy, our culture, and our community.

Growing up in Mississippi – a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression – gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.

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.

Drag Race’ is giving visibility to our community. It’s on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that’s an amazing thing.

The fabric of our community, our culture, is MCing.

I want to be a voice for the thousands of women in our community who work hard, play by the rules, and still are struggling to get ahead.

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Our community system is completely broken down, and you need to build that back up again and make people feel that they can make a change in life and not just sit around playing video games or on their iPhones – that they can get out there and make a difference.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

There is nothing more important for us in Maine than to welcome immigrants and help them not only become part of our community but for us to become part of their communities.

I will continue to fight for our people and businesses that make our community and our nation thrive, they deserve that.

Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.

My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.

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.

Valvoline’s decision to invest in our community sends a message around the world that Lexington is a great place to do business.

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

Chris Kirkpatrick and I were in college in choir together; we sang at our community college. I’m partially the reason why Chris even got into being in a boy band with *NSYNC.

We’re passing milestones all the time on the amount of money our community developers are making. And we’re seeing developers that are making $250,000 a year.

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.

The Coronavirus crisis is causing fear, anxiety and financial hardship for families across our community, our state and our nation.

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.

I’m really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it’s nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

Everything we do, every decision we make, is to ensure the best possible Airbnb experience for our community and grow the love.

We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.

I love what my dad taught me and modeled for me – not just with coaching but as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, as someone in our community that cared and worked to make things better. I watched my dad and learned a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball.

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.

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

I have great respect for Coach Morris. I always have. But I’m excited for what Coach Schiano is bringing to our team and what he’ll bring to our community and what he will bring to the players in the locker room.

It’s important that we continue to uplift and strengthen our LGBTQ youth who are the future of our community and remind them that their voices are heard.

My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we’re kind of mainstream.

When our community is under-represented, its people don’t receive the resources and attention they need to thrive.

In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and – in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation – and our community – great.

I’m a fan of making sure our community grows and that we are always compassionate and remember our place in the world.

It’s really important for everyone in our community to stand for something.

I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.

As a Brooklynite, this borough holds a special place in my heart, and I’m excited to represent BSE Global and identify opportunities that elevate our community to new heights.

We’ve got to help our community out. We’ve got to help Baltimore out, because it’s a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we’re dealing with.

The migration to more of a developer-powered economy is actually truer to our vision, which is a platform for user-generated content driven by our community.

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.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children.

Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it’s been products that don’t put anything back into our community.

Because women are more than the people who raise our children, they are fantastic leaders in their own rights in our community, and we want to give them the same safe environment, as we would expect.

Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.

The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset – it’s just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.

There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.

My whole life has been about building community, building business in our community, empowering people in our community.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we’ve got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

The history of black people in America, it’s so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of our community to find love and laughter and joy even in these very painful circumstances. That’s why I think in particular black love is so powerful, because it’s constantly under attack.

Dark skin is considered less than light skin in the in the minds of many in our community and in the media.

There’s no need for women and moms to go through this world alone without the help and the support from the businesses that do business in our communities and that generate success from the women in our community. That should not be happening.

We want all users to be safe on Roblox, and we will continue to invest in the safety of the game so it is a positive, productive, fun, and protected space for our community.

Even in national crisis, it is important that we continue to stand up for our community and follow where our faith leads us.

Connecticut is proud of the human rights legacy of Thomas Dodd, and the work of the University of Connecticut to build on that legacy through the Dodd Human Rights Impact initiative. We are also proud of our Commission on Human and Civil Rights as a tireless defender of the equal rights for all of our community members.

Racism was a big part of our community. I’m not going to revisit history, and I’m not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.

I believe Kendrick Lamar is not only an artist but an influencer of an entire generation. He represents Compton with great pride, and I am honored to present him with the Key to the City, which symbolizes our deep appreciation for his philanthropic work and commitment to our community.

New Jersey has faced its own history of citizens demanding change and federal engagement in programs to address the needs of our community. We have also seen the success of law enforcement in our state when members work to listen to our communities and build a brighter future alongside our residents.

We do have to watch to see how the foreign workers and immigrants are fitting in with our community, and you have to watch them mix so that you don’t overbalance the numbers or the tone of our society.

With the EP ‘Listen,’ I just wanted to bring back a feeling of appreciation for our women in our community. That feeling of love and being vulnerable.

United Way works to create a safe and healthy home for everyone in our community.

I feel the need to reframe our community positively and better deaf youth’s lives, and with the ‘DWTS’ platform, I can – but it’s not enough until I win.

The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.

To get the opportunities I’ve gotten has been insane. But also interesting. With the Starbucks commercial, I found it fascinating that once it was on the Internet, tons of people, especially gay people, were like, ‘Why did they choose drag queens to showcase our community?’

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it’s making a difference in our community.

In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

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.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

I want to leave Accenture better than I found it. I am focused on investing our people, our community and effective diversity and inclusion initiatives.