Community Development Quotes

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.

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

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

Idowu Koyenikan

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz