Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

Now people are really inspired to do a lot, and the fire got lit under our asses to be more politically aware and be more politically involved in our community and pay more attention to what's going on.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

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.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

I'm a reflection of the community.

Most Hoosiers underestimate their ability to effect change.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.

I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.

Conservatives believe in patriotism, but equally in community and the importance of local identity. We believe in devolution. We believe in localism. We believe that decisions should be taken locally wherever is practical; that communities matter.

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.

It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

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

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.

All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.

Do what you love in your community.