Community Support Quotes:

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

- Donna Shalala

source: "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

topic: Teacher, School, Differences, Parental, Community Support

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.180, Penguin

topic: Mean, Exercise, Games, Play Life, Community Support

Lisa Hendey’s CatholicMom.com website has long been a treasured internet gathering spot. The Handbook for Catholic Moms is a welcome extension of Lisa’s wisdom and energy, enriched by the experiences of the community of women who have found community, support, and strength through CatholicMom.com.

- Amy Welborn

topic: Mom, Long, Support, Community Support, Treasured

Today they have to be three-dimensional. Technology's changed, the communication, the marketing and advertising community supports beautiful girls that can be articulate and smart. And also Anna Wintour doesn't want to sit next to some girl who can't say two words.

- Michael Flutie

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Smart, Community Support

No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives. So whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is less important than the right to be free to live it out, without discrimination, harassment, injury, pathologization or criminalization - and with full institutional and community support.

- Judith Butler

source: Source: www.transadvocate.com

topic: Reality, Support, Community, Harassment, Community Support