The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength and so of gaining or retaining a good name are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

When all is said and done the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like with much more of a sense from our perspective of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts having strength in alliances operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

You go to Holland France Germany every community the tiniest village they have magnificent pristine sports facilities.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward especially for kids.

Julie Mia and I just met for a couple days doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

Denver is home to me and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

We're going to have more kids playing and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

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.

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

I mean I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast vast community as one can imagine.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

Every society all government and every kind of civil compact therefore is or ought to be calculated for the general good and safety of the community.