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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

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.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.