community respect Quotes

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.

In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation.

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.

In Texas, they're very proud of being cowboys. It's a different atmosphere - a lot more agricultural. I can't, living here in Jersey, predict who they are. It's called respecting the community.

We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

Those who dare to speak out about major public events may not receive tangible benefits, but they receive the very considerable reward of high moral reputation among fellow Chinese as well as in the international community.

Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

Any good GM wants to field phone calls from his peers.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from white people and the cops if we don't respect each other.

We are safer when communities respect the police and the police respect the communities.

'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.