Eunice Kennedy Shriver Quotes

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.

I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.

Libraries are where it all begins.

I like talking about it, I like talking about world change. I like talking about things that you want to do in your community.

Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

We in Europe need to discuss how we can improve the community. That is the correct order.

We cannot afford to not stick and work together for the betterment of our community.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for police who do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educate our people, make them a better people and make our community a more decent and safe place to live.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them; of their character, judgements, acts and efforts.

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.