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Community Development Quotes

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Thomas L. Friedman
“One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.”
Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

T.F. Hodge
“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”
T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.”
Artika Tyner

Bryant McGill
“The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.”
Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

Kevin A. Patterson
“Inclusivity has to be seen as a benefit to the community. The lack of diversity has to be seen as a detriment to that community.”
Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

Tanner Colby
“There’s only one way America’s neighborhoods will begin to integrate: people have to want it more than vested public and corporate interests are opposed to it. And more people should want it. Mixed-race, mixed-income housing is a product we need to market. It’s the only real solution to segregated schools, for one.”
Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

“Darwin's work is a testament to the power of two of the most basic tools used in research, the pencil and paper.”
Robert Mark Silverman and Kelly L. Patterson

“It is interesting that there can be gun turn-ins and buy-backs in Black neighborhoods and at the same time there are gun shows on the other side of town. (excerpt from "How to Move Black America Forward")”
Eddie Taylor, PhD

“I think is inherent in humans to be driven by a cause. However, we must be able to differentiate between sensationalism and true facts. Otherwise we risk to sacrifice many things in life for the wrong cause; which may even include our own happiness.”
Rodolfo Peon

“As a general rule, researchers should assume an unobtrusive stance in public settings. A researcher should strive to blend into his or her surroundings in order to reduce his or her impact on the research setting. The art of blending into a research setting entails conscious decisions about how to dress in a research setting, what mannerisms to exhibit, whether to take notes openly or in a concealed manner, and other strategies that allow a researcher to become invisible in the field.”
Robert Mark Silverman and Kelly L. Patterson

Robert D. Lupton
“Helping strategies, if indeed they are to be ultimately helpful, demand careful examination of long-term implications. There is no guarantee that unexamined charity will have a redemptive outcome simply because it ‘seems right’ or feels good to the giver.”
Robert D. Lupton, Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results

“The spirit of service is the soul of belonging.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Danielle Hawa Tarigha
“Extreme poverty isn’t just an African issue or an Asian issue or a South American issue. It is a global issue. Before flying overseas to help relieve poverty abroad, consider the poverty in your own backyard.

Every country on every continent has people impacted by poverty—whether it is relative or absolute. Bringing extreme poverty down to zero will take more trial and error, more methods, more innovation, and more communication. Most importantly, it will take more trust—the trust that people are aware of their problems and are creative enough to solve them when given the right resources. People need opportunities, connections, and education to learn more about life’s possibilities, not handouts, performative sympathy, and empty promises.”
Danielle Hawa Tarigha, Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation

Danielle Hawa Tarigha
“Working closely with recipients and understanding the needs of others requires a level of trust, credibility, and closeness that community leaders are best positioned to develop.

Community leaders can serve as mentors, communicators, and friends who represent the values and priorities most important to the populations they support.

At this level of giving, customizing aid to the specific needs of individuals becomes a natural byproduct of the types of relationships formed.”
Danielle Hawa Tarigha, Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation

Danielle Hawa Tarigha
“Extreme poverty isn’t just an African issue or an Asian issue or a South American issue. It is a global issue. Before flying overseas to help relieve poverty abroad, consider the poverty in your own backyard.

Every country on every continent has people impacted by poverty—whether it is relative or absolute. Bringing extreme poverty down to zero will take more trial and error, more methods, more innovation, and more communication. Most importantly, it will take more trust—the trust that people are aware of their problems and are creative enough to solve them when given the right resources.”
Danielle Hawa Tarigha, Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation

“People are significant resource of the world that deserve to live in a safe and healthy environment. Thereby corporates need to maneuver conservative and strategic sustainable development principles to meet the demands of business in the present without compromising the needs of future civilization.”
Henrietta Newton Martin - Legal Counsel & Author

Shriram Sharma Acharya
“It is our responsibility to stand for the conservation of the vegetation that influences our lives personally. By ignoring or destroying it we are only causing harm to ourselves...”
Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, Donation of Time - The Supreme Charity

Troy Sandidge
“You have three types of followers: buyers, advocates, and elevators. Buyers buy your products or services and contribute to profits. Advocates give you free publicity and potential opportunities by referring you and sharing your posts. Elevators swell your posts through likes, comments, and engagements. This is what I like to refer to as the Relationship Status of B.A.E. Each one is essential to your brand, and you need all three to grow.”
Troy Sandidge, Strategize Up: The Simplified Blueprint To Scaling Your Business

“I came to understand more broadly that the look and feel of our communities has a profound effect on the collective mental state of the people living there.”
Antong Lucky, A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism

“The Market Square was the center of The City's community, and for most of the people, the highlight of their lives.”
Stephen Whitfield, Omari And The People