Quotes About Unity

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

I hope we build a son who's strong enough to stand up for other people. And if Donald Trump is out there teaching folks how to build walls, we're hoping to instil in our son the ability to know how to take them down.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

Working on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' everything was there on the paper and in the room and within the four walls when all of us were together. It was just all there.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife and my step-son, or my daughter and my ex, I'm that guy in the middle, and I try to make sure we all stay together.

I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I'm trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.