Quotes About Unity

Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad!

Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

Don't fight if you can help it. But if one of you gets whipped by somebody both of you best come home bloody, understand?

We need new rituals to awaken us to the fact that we are not separate from the land, water, and sky. We need ceremonies putting us back in touch, and urging us to conserve the resources that give life to everything in existence. We need to once again think as part of something greater, to view reality from a place higher than the narrow confines of a shortsighted ego. Empathy toward other living things should be one of the very first lessons instilled by all religions.

No matter how good the justification, I still see all the identities that divide human beings along racial or national lines as prisons. I'm not about to give artificial categories and man-made borders the right to limit my ties with other human beings and dictate what values I should or should not embrace.

Looking at them now, I realized love wasn't something you could perform but something you felt together.

The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.

The lesson of the Declaration's structure is that solidarity cannot be built without principle.

Family is everything....Loyalty is priceless

Those who came before us, with their family names and genetic legacies, with their physical peculiarities, whether it be albino skin or brown eyes—none of this mattered. Family was who we loved and who we protected. Family was the tribe we created here and now.

U svakom mom retku, u svakoj mojoj re?i, u svakoj ta?ki nalaziš se i ti, kao polen.

Shared sorrow is half sorrow

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

All you ever longed for is Before you in this moment If you dare draw in a Breath and whisper "Yes.