Quotes About Unity

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

Let's be honest, part of the whole great March of Humanity is just swinging your arms and walking, just smiling and moving forward.

Sometimes," Al said slowly, "sometimes self-reliance is the key to survival, but other times cooperation

Just as with space, whose separating of things seems exactly on a par with its uniting of them, but sometimes one function and sometimes the other is what come home to us most, so, in our general dealings with the world of influences, we now need conductors and now need non-conductors, and wisdom lies in knowing which is which at the appropriate moment.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

You know no nation has a monopoly on good things, each one has something that the others could well afford to adopt.

There is a fine breed for you, Irish-Indian. My family crest would be a Shillalah with a Tomahawk on one end.

There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue.

I am not a member of any organized party -- I am a Democrat

All readers have reading in common.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

But I do want you to look after each other. I'll be very cross if I hear that any of you are fighting. And if anyone causes trouble, I'll come back from the grave and get 'em.

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

the only thing necessary to trigger tribal behaviour in humans is the creation of two completely arbitrary groups. Leave them alone in a room and watch it all begin:

until we are willing and able to make the connections between what we are eating and what was required to get it on our plate, and how it affects us to buy, serve, and eat it, we will be unable to make the connections that will allow us to live wisely and harmoniously on this earth.When we cannot make connections, we cannot understand, and we are less free, less intelligent, less loving, and less happy.

All the arts are conduits for the expression of this deep human longing for unity, but it is only in the art of food preparation and eating that this oneness is actually physically achieved. This is part of what makes eating such a powerful experience and metaphor: food art is eaten and becomes us. It enters as object and becomes subject; what is "not-me" is transformed into "me.

I have seen groups of people overcome incredible odds as they became aware they are participating in a cause beyond self and sense the movement of the inexorable which comes from unity. Violence is not inevitable. War is not inevitable. Nonviolence and peace are inevitable. We can make of this world a gift of peace which will confirm the presence of universal spirit in our lives. We can send into the future the gift which will protect our children from fear, from harm, from destruction.11

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.