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"To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an exultation of individuality (in private character often a virtue) to the condition of a political dogma, which destroyed the spirit of community and reduced men to so many equipollent atoms of humanity, without sense of brotherhood or purpose."
"But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community."
"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
"I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community."
"The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love."
"Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own."
"Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote."
"The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted."
"The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community."
"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world."
"That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that."
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."
"If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances."
"In union there is strength."
"I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole."
"Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community."
"Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities."
"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities."
"A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement."
"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
