#communities

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#apologise #australians #children #communities #country

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#again #arkansas #come #communities #develop

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#communities #figuring #future #kids #meeting

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#create #cured #daring #disease #lives

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#brooklyn #communities #friends #hang #i

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#communities #country #drivers #economic #need

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#built #communities #lost #part #proud

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#character #communities #cycle #improve #indifference

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities. ↗

— George Miller

#communities #cut #desperately #devastation #hurricane