Quotes About Unity

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

See me, feel meTouch me, heal me.

When you're part of a gang, you soon find the parts of you that don't fit. These apparent defects can become assets; they're the things about you that make you interesting & useful.

There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man.

At this moment we are as close as people can ever hope to be. Our hearts have beaten together, our bodies have merged. Right now I know what love is. I know how it feels to be not completely alone. Right now I know you as I have never known anybody else.

The community protects and shares out of caring; love is never far away.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

After decades of war and months of virus-fueled isolation, the people of Uíge did not waste energy.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

We can create structures of belonging even if we are introverted

beyond beginnings the earth her many tribes and clans their life songs merge into one chant- - And to each creation the heartline trail is etched in delicate memory pattern webs so intricate in a unity of day into night the seasons follow

everything," Balzac claims, "is a mosaic.

When Australians talk of the men who saved Australia in 1942–43, of that time in their history when they also had to stand alone and help themselves, who fought not for the birth of a nation, but for its very rites of passage,

Very much. Very much a melting pot. You don't draw lines anymore. There's no such thing as 'bloody this' or 'bloody that'. There's no such thing anymore. We all Aussies. And the Aussies respect us as Aussies. I am accepted as an Australian and I feel like one too. - Ibolya Cabrero-Kovacs, Hungarian Freedom Fighter

It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.