Katie Leclerc Quotes

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America. We wrote it together - now let's go out and make it happen together.

My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can you do around your own community, within your own family, to try to improve race relations in our country? I think this is a responsibility that we all have as citizens.

For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need to thrive.

When I can, I enjoy working with local people to involve everyone in the community in changing their environment.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

Part of the role that I am fulfilling as Governor General is to highlight what communities can do together.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

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.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

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.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.