The police are required to enforce the law in areas where they do not live, do not eat, do not go to the barbershop. They have no interaction with the people in that community except when they are called to resolve an issue. To bridge the gap we must establish relationships with the people and communities we serve. If we don’t we will continue to have biases that grow and fester and create deadly situations.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.
— Luther E. VannThe time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaHigh powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned out of residential communities that have developing babies and children.
— Steven MageeMany of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today’s organizations, communities, and nations could have been avoided if leaders have solid self-awareness...
— Assegid HabtewoldThe time to clean our city of any dirt begins with individual action for collective clean communities.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
— SocratesSome of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.
— Sharad Vivek SagarDemocracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.
— AberjhaniIf every individual sweeps in front of their house, the community will be clean. If the community is clean; our coastal ecosystems (rivers, lagoons, wetlands etc) shall be clear clean waters.
— Lailah Gifty Akita