Jill Scott Quotes

We have always a roll to play in any community, and we have to do it - it's being part of a society.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

We can’ t renew our country unless more of us—I mean all of us—are willing to join churches.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

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.

The object of Socialism is not to render the individual capable of living on his personal resources. That is the theory of radical individualism. Its object is to create in him a greater and greater sense of his dependence upon the state, and, at the same time, to inculcate in him the conviction that he is a part of it and that he has a duty and responsibility toward the state; and that only in so far as he fulfills this duty can he benefit by the advantages of a complete personal and social life.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

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

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.