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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

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.

Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.

We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.