Lori Lightfoot Quotes

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Society is held together by trust.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

We see you. We stand with you.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.