{"quotes":[{"text":"Giving back is so important. Give back to your communities in whatever way you can. With donations, items or with your time. The Universe blesses a generous heart.","author":"Eileen Anglin","tags":["activism","community-service","give-back","giving"],"id":3559,"author_id":"Eileen+Anglin"},{"text":"Our services serve a specific need.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","community-service","humanity","needs","service"],"id":11370,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","clean-up","community-service","country","environmental-degradation","ghana","humanity","inspiring","laziness","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita"],"id":62683,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["community-service","crime"],"id":68142,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Desire to dwell in clean environment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["cities","clean-environment","clean-up","community-service","inspirational","self-help"],"id":87056,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"He citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","citizens","clean-environment","community-service","environmental-degradation","inspiring-words","work"],"id":112949,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["citizens","community-service","humanity","service","volunteers","work"],"id":116945,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["acting","altruism","blogs","charity-organizations","community-service","counselors","documentary","freethinkers","givers","healers","health-careers","influence","life-coach","magnify-your-talents","movies","news","newspapers","overthinkers","pastors","philosophy","preachers","psychologists","psychology","public-education","public-speakers","service","speakers","talents","television","theatre","therapists","thinkers","websites","writers"],"id":117394,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achievement","advice","citizens","clean-up","community-service","duty","education","environmental-protection","family-roles","house-work","humanity","inspirational","responsibility","success","volunteerism","wisdom","work"],"id":121677,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was working forty feet above the ground, breathing in sulfur fumes from Satan's vomitorium, for.","author":"Laurie Halse Anderson","tags":["boy-narrator","community-service","hard-labor","wit"],"id":156027,"author_id":"Laurie+Halse+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}