Quotes About Unity

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

I believe we are here for each other, not against each other

My faith will proclaim it is so - we are never alone.

The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal.

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in their several orbits.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

He only said what Christianity has never been able to follow, that within it all are equal and this is to be its witness and challenge to the world outside.

Desmond Tutu: "God, without us, will not; as we, without God cannot.")

As soon as there was two there was pride

The Phoenix riddle hath more witBy us, we two being one, are it.So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,We die and rise the same, and proveMysterious by this love.

Our eye-beams twisted, and did threadOur eyes, upon one double string;So to entergraft our hands, as yetWas all the means to make us one,And pictures in our eyes to getWas all our propagation.

'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?O wilt thou therefore rise from me?Why should we rise, because 'tis light?Did we lie down, because 'twas night?Love which in spite of darkness brought us hitherShould in despite of light keep us together.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,And true plain hearts do in the faces rest,Where can we find two better hemispheresWithout sharp North, without declining West?

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.

If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two,Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the other do.

Our two souls therefore which are one,Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to airy thinness beat.

And now good morrow to our waking souls,Which watch not one another out of fear;For love, all love of other sights controls,And makes one little room, an everywhere.Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.