Community Effects Quotes

I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'

After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.

You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities - places like Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay - lost thousands of jobs as a result of those trade policies, most notably NAFTA and permanent most-favored-nation status for China.

There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

Part of what we should be thinking about, whenever legislation is passed, is, 'how does this affect all varieties of communities?'

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.