Robert Kennedy Quotes

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Democracy, in any active sense, begins and ends in communities small enough for their members to meet face to face.

To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community ... must speak in the tone of that community, not as somebody else's buffer zone.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

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

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

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.

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.

In the days ahead, I will propose more ways for more Americans to get involved in national service and give back to our communities, because every one of us has a role to play in building the future we want.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

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.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

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.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

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