Ben Eine Quotes

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

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

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

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

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

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

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.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

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.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

We have enough to worry about with what's happening in our nation to worry about what's happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we're going to build communities that work.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

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

I'm a reflection of the community.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

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

Mobilize population and all partners—the public sector and the private sector. Development is everybody’s business.

Your cities can be saved or squandered in one generation. So let's agree to set aside our philosophical disagreements and focus on those aspirations that unite us. Let's grasp the opportunity that is presented by innovation to build better communities for our neighbors. Let's replace a focus on partisan division with a focus on results. That is the path to a better future for us all.