Quotes About Unity

Surely part of the moral meaning of representative government is that the representatives from all parts of a vast nation coming together in a great mosaic not only represent the interests and visions of their respective localities but also then learn from each other, affect each other, reason together, diminish their respective provincialisms, and shape something nearer to the common good.

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. (Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference (28 September 1838))

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

William Loren Katz

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.

How do we love all children, of all species, of all time?

How do we love all children, of all species, FOR all time?" ? William McDonough

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

the things he hated most was élitism. We share in everyone else or forego ourselves. 'Hullo there, captain.

Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.' 'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.

You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together.

Where nobody trusts anyone else, it's impossible to work together.

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.