Quotes About Unity

We need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity with the cosmos so that we can connect with Reality. But we also need a sense of individuality, for the sake of our own dignity and independence and of the loving care for others. We need it to appreciate each natural form, each animal and plant, each human person in their uniqueness.

A person is not an originating agent; he is a locus, a point at which many genetic and environmental conditions come together in a joint effect.

The failure to adopt other people's points of view, to take an imaginative leap out of oneself, is one way to account for much of the behavior we find, troublesome, from littering to murder. (Kafka once referred to war as "a monstrous failure of imagination.") Perspective taking helps us at once to see others as fundamentally similar to ourselves despite superficial differences (in that we share a common humanity)

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Ami, ne t'en va plus si loin. D'un peu d'aide j'ai grand besoin, Quoi qu'il m'advienne. Je ne sais où va mon chemin, Mais je marche mieux quand ma main Serre la tienne.

The goal of conflict resolution is to cultivate unity and peace, not to win or prove you are right.

Be kind and tenderhearted to one another (Eph. 4:32).

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle" (Prov. 18:19 NKJV).

Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. Ecclesiastes 4:9

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'