Quotes on Strong Community

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.