Quotes About Unity

Ain't they people too, though?" muttered Beck, thinking of the face of that Union man lying dead in the shack yesterday. "Just like us?" Whirrun squinted across at him. "More than likely they are. But if you start thinking like that, well… you'll get no one killed at all.

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.

You're going for a feeling. Make them think you're one of them.

Una alianza debe ser sellada cara a cara, hombre a hombre, hierro a hierro, y sangre a sangre.

They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, idealist and pragmatist, dreamer and cynic.

You pick your Chief, you pick your side, you pick your crew and then you stand by 'em, whatever the wind blows up.

Where do we find allies?' Father Yarvi smiled. 'Among our enemies, where else?

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.' Her

Now go, and if I hear of more fighting, let it be of how the two of you beat someone else together.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

The American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us.

Here we stand, just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.

All our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

Folks, winning means uniting America, not sowing seeds of division and anger and hate. We got to beat Donald Trump, and we will, but we can't become like him.

History, faith, and reason show the way--the way of unity. We can see each other, not as adversaries, but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.

My mother's creed is the American creed: No one is better than you. You are everyone's equal, and everyone is equal to you.

We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together.

We all know--or at least we are told continually--that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

When we've stood as one, this nation has never ever been defeated, when we've been together, and we're not going to be defeated now. The pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression, two world wars, we overcame them all. And out of each crisis, we emerged stronger and we will again.

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.