Quotes About Unity

And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant.

a delegate shout out from the floor: "Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!" And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America's future.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided uncertain extremes of the scale.

Education Is All A Matter Of Building Bridges

Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states.

Our fate is to become one, and yet many— This is not prophecy, but description.

The unheard sounds came through, and each melodic line existed of itself, stood out clearly from all the rest, said its piece, and waited patiently for the other voices to speak.

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided the uncertain extremes of the scale.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.