Quotes About Unity

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

I was very surprised to learn how many cancer survivors are out there and how they instantly rallied to my support.

I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together.

I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

We've met so many people you'd never even suspect of being Slayer fans: suits, lawyers, and people like that.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.

We only won our freedom because of our allies, and we can only sustain it because of them.

The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.

Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious efforts.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'

What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.

It's going to take everyone to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable, more beautiful Britain.