Max Carver Quotes

The more we reach out and become vulnerable and share our stories, the more people we will meet that will unite and help us to achieve more equality.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.

Everyone who has felt alienated by the games industry, both would-be players and creators, needs to rally together and support one another as we create a space for those of us who don't fit in traditional spaces.

We are the party that hears the stories of people, the struggles.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

I think the Democratic Party is about family, about unity, about bringing people together. We're all in this together. We're all trying to rebuild the economy together.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Let me emphatically point out that … sympathy is useless unless it is accompanied by indignation, and indignation is useless if it exhausts itself in words instead of taking shape in deeds.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.