Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
Interpretation
Community is essential for instilling values such as trust and respect in individuals of all ages.
This quote emphasizes the vital role that community plays in fostering essential values such as trust, respect, and ethical behavior. It suggests that without a strong sense of community, it becomes challenging for the young to learn these values and for the older generation to uphold them, indicating that social cohesion is crucial for moral development across generations.
In practice
During a community gathering to discuss youth programs.
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.
We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth. It (the community) cares for that part (of the Earth) but cares for it as a circle - which is to say in a cooperative and egalitarian way, where everybody is cared for, and everybody is respected.
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.
I want every young Indigenous girl to think about getting involved in their communities. You're never too young to help with community efforts.
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