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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

— Ralph Nader

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

— Ice Cube

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

— Randall Kennedy

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

— John Ciardi

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

— Murray Kempton

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

— Helen Fisher

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

— H. Rap Brown

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

— Will Shields

✗Opposing Perspectives

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

— Valerie Solanas

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

— Mother Angelica