Quotes About Unity

The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together.

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behavior. But that's not the same thing. This is the story of how we became freaks. It's how a group of Is became a we.

Loyalty to your school means loyalty to every member of our community.

the enemy of our enemy our friend?

Behind the man's back Jonah and I give each other a high five.

Frances puts down her cane. Tara tugs on her braid. Bob tugs on his beard. Jon continues to look handsome. Alan nods. "I guess we owe you a thank-you." "Thank

If you've given me up, I'll be okay without you! I am one of a kind And I've got my crew. It's true, I'm one of a kind And I've got my crew.

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of mourn together, suffer together. City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

Because of the city upon a hill sound bite, A Model of Christian Charity is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.

As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all of us.

After he finishes his song, I ask him, "Sir, were you just playing 'Lean on Me'?" "That's right!" he answers, thrilled. Now, whenever I think of Mudd and his house I hear that song, hear Mudd serenading the limping Booth, taking his arm and helping him up the stairs, singing, "Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend.

When Lafayette visited Monticello in 1824, his old friend Thomas Jefferson toasted him: "When I was stationed in his country for the purpose of cementing its friendship with ours, and of advancing our mutual interests, this friend of both, was my most powerful auxiliary and advocate. He made our cause his own . . . His influence and connections there were great. All doors of all departments were open to him at all times. In truth, I only held the nail, he drove it.

I soon figured out that I should keep my qualms to myself. Christianity is no different from any other cult---it isn't about faith. It's about agreement, about like-minded people sitting together in the same room at the same time believing the same thing. That unity is its appeal. Once someone, even a little six-year-old someone wearing patent leather Mary Janes, starts asking questions that can't be answered, the whole congregation's fun is spoiled.

asked the boy to "consider himself at all times as one of his family." Washington was referring to his military family or aides-de-camp, the same way John Adams described the aide Alexander Hamilton as "one of General Washington's Family." So when Washington said "family," he meant "chummy minion." The orphaned Lafayette heard "son.

We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged.

Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.

In his reply, Washington acknowledged his fellow Americans' "fatal tendency of disunion." The

the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world is through reading.

one candle will light ten thousand.

Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.

As I recall, the cover of Time the week the Wall fell read, "Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

We are human beings first and last. Our religion is faith in Humanity - and there can be no religion greater than that.