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I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.
Terrence Howard

Black, Realize, President

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
James Earl Jones

Before, Once, Church

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
Sargent Shriver

Needs, Determined, Thinks

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Ernst Toller

Truth, Simple, Deep

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.
Shay Mitchell

Help, Friends, Eyes

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Stephen Gardiner

Both, Individual, Respected

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Stephen Gardiner

Design, Looks, Themes

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.
Lindsey Graham

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
Paula Poundstone

Time, Talk, Economic

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root

Peace, War, Long

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
Amber Heard

Someone, Proud, Idea

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
Charles Rangel

Love, Through, Office

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.
Charles Rangel

Faith, Confidence, Glad

I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.
Zach Braff

Love, School, High

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
Zach Braff

Amazing, Dad, Sports

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.
Louis Farrakhan

Black, Took, Jews

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Kofi Annan

Business, Society, Labor

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!
Jan Brewer

Everything, Cannot, Wrong

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
Danny Glover

Family, Anger, Powerful

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
Hal Sparks

Technology, Problem, Sense

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.
Michael Badnarik

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
Junior Seau

Dreams, Football, Mean

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
Jasmine Guy

Important, Free, Seems

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Jasmine Guy

Love, Friendship, Family

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
Jasmine Guy

Whether, Quality, Involved

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.
Adam Savage

Heart, Small, Reason

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Huston Smith

Religion, Political, Soul

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
Kathleen Turner

Society, Live, Nothing

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
Tom Petty

Rock, Integrity, Real

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
Brooke Shields

Place, Earned, Broadway

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