Quotes About Unity

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. " Eldridge Cleaver

Yes, that was the way it had all begun, the game of the hundred dresses. It all happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, with everybody falling right in, that even if you felt uncomfortable as Maddie had there wasn't anything you could do about it. Maddie wagged her head up and down. Yes, she repeated to herself, that was the way it began, that day, that bright blue day.

Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history, we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunate from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousand fold by what they have brought us.

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

It has always seemed to me a great pity that man's noblest instincts, his heroic self-sacrifice, his capacity to unite with his neighbor in a common cause, emerge only in times of disaster, such as war and fire and flood.

of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

As usual it seemed to her that she could enter and leave my life without any worries, as if we were still a single thing and there was no need to ask how are you, how are things, am I disturbing you.

Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.

Would I know how to imagine those things without her? Would I know how to give life to every object, let it bend in unison with mine?