#neighbor

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it. ↗

— Ving Rhames

#child #deprived #grew #i #know

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much. ↗

— Gary Ross

#exciting #find #force #forces #go

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

#black #black community #blacks #certain #community

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone - in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor's wretchedness. 'Love they neighbor' is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#love-thy-neighbor #service #love

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#his #how #look #much #neighbor

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#neighbors #security #success #art

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#come #friends #neighbors #our #ourselves

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#best #fancy #highest #investments #neighborhoods

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. ↗

— Bill Schuette

#cops #more #most #neighborhood #offenders