Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

If you can figure out a way for people at all different stages of life to believe that they're all meaningful to each other, then yes, WeLive can work anywhere.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

It Takes A Village

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

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.