Aja Brown Quotes

I'm doing work in the community.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

My greatest work comes in the community.

I love being in the BJP, communicating with people and doing something for them. It's very challenging.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

I really consider my goal is that, wherever I am in life, I want to be a social advocate.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

My style is to service my community through entertainment and products.

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

I want to serve the people.

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

I've found my sweet spot here in public service.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

When I got signed, I wanted to be involved in a charity, but it was hard because I didn't know which problems to start with.

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.