{"quotes":[{"text":"The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["community-development","reformation","transformation"],"id":26434,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["be-open","be-open-minded","be-real","community","community-building","community-development","community-empowerment","community-outreach","conversation","conversation","conversational-theory","conversations","debates","diversity","empowerment","germany-kent","germany-kent","germany-kent","hard-questions","hard-work","hardwork","honesty","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty","humanity","humanity-advice","humanity-and-society","humanity-complexity","humanity","humanity-society","opinions","opinions-of-others","opinions","social-media","social-media-advice","social-media-audiences","social-media-behavior","social-media-mind","society","society-humanity","society","society-thinking","society-views","speak-out","speak-up","speaking-your-mind","transcend","transformation","transformation-energetics","transformation-of-consciousness","transformation","transformational-speakers","transparency","transparent"],"id":60376,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["communal","communal-life","communality","community","community-building","community-development","cooperate","cooperation","cooperation-and-attitude","group-work","power","team","team-building","team-management","team-spirit","teammates","teams","teamwork","work-together","working-together","working-together-as-one"],"id":69266,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["clarification","commitment","community-development","conflict","friendship","friendship-true-and-loyal","truth-telling","wars"],"id":168539,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.","author":"Artika Tyner","tags":["community-development","criminal-justice","leadership","poverty","servant-leader","social-change"],"id":218271,"author_id":"Artika+Tyner"},{"text":"When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["colonization","community","community-development","culture","quotes","social-justice"],"id":338433,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.","author":"Thomas L. Friedman","tags":["community-development","empowerment","social-entrepreneurship"],"id":349767,"author_id":"Thomas+L.+Friedman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}