Community Service
The time is always right to do what is right. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. |
Margaret Mead |
It takes a village to raise a child. |
African Proverb |
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. |
Mohammed Ali |
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. |
Robert South |
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. |
Arthur Ashe |
If I am not for myself, who will be? |
Hillel |
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country. |
Marian Anderson, 1960 |
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
Edmund Burke |
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. |
Albert Einstein |
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it. |
Abraham Lincoln |
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. |
Maya Angelou |
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. |
Stephan Grellet |
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. |
Paula Gunn Allen |
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
One man with courage makes a majority. |
Andrew Jackson |
True worth is in being, not seeming — |
Alice Cary |
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. |
Rosa Parks |
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. |
Marion Wright Edelman |
A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. |
Henrik Ibsen |
The only tyrant I accept is the still voice within. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Be not simply good; be good for something. |
Henry David Thoreau |