Yehuda Berg Quotes

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Every time I attend a We Day event, I learn something new, and I always feel way more perspective not just for the world I live in, but also the world that's happening around me.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

When you travel and when you campaign, people tell you their problems. You see the problems and you become aware of them and you talk about them every day. And so you feel the responsibility for doing something about them.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

I'm a fan of making sure our community grows and that we are always compassionate and remember our place in the world.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

Service learning connects classroom studies to real-world issues, with hands-on activities and problem solving. Youth can study biology and ecology by testing the water in their own community; or learn about statistics, calculating the food supply and usage at the local food bank.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.