Community
Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.
Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
Common character; likeness.
Commonness; frequency.
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Community Quotations
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan
I'm a reflection of the community.
Tupac Shakur
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
Community Translations
community in Dutch is gemeente, gemeenschap
community in Finnish is kunta
community in German is Gemeinde, Gemeinsamkeit, Gemeinschaft
community in Portuguese is comunidade
community in Spanish is comunidad, municipio
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