“... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.”

“To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always looses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.”

“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”

“Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...”

“The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.”

“In every community, there is work to be done.In every nation, there are wounds to heal.In every heart, there is the power to do it.”