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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of collective responsibility and supporting one another within a community.
Michael Nutter's quote highlights the lesson he learned from his parents about community responsibility. Growing up in West Philadelphia, he was taught that his obligations extended beyond his own household to the wider community, illustrating the value of teamwork and cooperation for the greater good.
In practice
In a speech about volunteerism, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of community service.
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
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.
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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