Helen Johnson-Leipold Quotes

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.

Anything to make a difference and to seek consensus on an issue is something that I feel strongly about.

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.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.

America needs a president who knows how we live and work, who delivers on promises to those who need help, who won't use fear and hate as a political cudgel, and who works to solve our biggest problems instead of nibbling around the edges - a president who will go big, be bold, and do good, and stirs all Americans to do likewise.

I hope that people understand in order for things to change in our country, we all have to come together and do it together.

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.

I sincerely want to help create beauty in the world and move a culture of separateness back towards community. I really, really do, and I think art is a powerful way of doing that.