Community Harm Quotes

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Slavery is a slow poison to the morals of any community where it exists.

It's the reckless ideas put forward by the NRA's leadership, and pushed through by fearful legislators, that have allowed systemic gun violence to expand, wreaking havoc on communities of color for decades.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it's an irresponsible argument.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

Southwest Detroit has been through hell (excuse my directness) with Matty Moroun, his Bridge Company, and all his fancy-named subsidiaries. From blighted homes that my boys have to walk by to allowing his trucks to rumble down our residential streets, passing our parks, schools, and homes - we have had it.

If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

The pressure that has been brought to bear upon the native people, since the cessation of armed conflict, in the attempt to force conformity of custom and habit has caused a reaction more destructive than war, and the injury has not only affected the Indian, but has extended to the white population as well.

A mistake that is kept secret only harms the person who has committed it, but if it becomes public and is not denounced, it harms the community

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.

War is a terribly destructive force, even beyond the limits of the battlefronts and the war zones. It's influence involves the whole community. It warps men's judgement, distorts the true standard of patriotism, breeds distrust and suspicion among neighbors, inflames passions, encourages violence, develops abuse of power, tyrannizes over men and women even in the purely social relations of life, and terrifies whole communities into the most abject surrender of every right which is the heritage of free government.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.

Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.