Quotes About Unity

La actitud principal y necesaria en el discernimiento comunitario es la apertura, la búsqueda de la verdad y la confianza de que esta verdad será alcanzada

We will only stay in community if we have gone through the passage from choosing community to knowing that we have been chosen for community.

In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean

Perhaps when two people are exactly in accord, and always happy when together and lonely when apart, they ought not to let anything in the world stand between them.

It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However

The aim of the John Grier Home (as you doubtless know and heartily approve of) is to turn the ninety-seven orphans into ninety-seven twins.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

But if neither sadness or rage could unite us, I didn't know what could - the more I wanted to identify with her, the more I identified with myself; and the more I tried to understand her, the less, necessarily, I succeeded: the failure of an intelligent mind to grasp feeblemindedness was dark and deep, no less than the failure of a feeble mind to grasp intelligence, because intelligence got its shape by not understanding the thing it could never be.

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Il mediterraneo non è solo geografia. Non è solo storia. Ma è più di una semplice appartenenza.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Then the air the sparrow breathed we could breathe tool

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.

Luca even hears Abuela lightly scolding them all, not because she actually disapproves, Luca realizes, but because a casual reprimand is Abuela's way of participating, and that is the thing, really,

Paola is a stranger, but her hands on Lydia's back are the hands of God. They are Sebastián's and Yemi's and Yénifer's. They are her mother's hands.

If you're a person who has the capacity to be a bridge, why not be a bridge?

Sumac and mountain mahogany band together

this is the one thing all migrants have in common, this is the solidarity that exists among them, though they all come from different places and different circumstances, some urban, some rural, some middle-class, some poor, some well educated, some illiterate, Salvadoran, Honduran, Guatemalan, Mexican, Indian, each of them carries some story of suffering on top of that train and into el norte beyond.

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

We are all Americans

Ready, Lydia?" Jack asked, "Can you run?" Could she? A bobolink warbled the answer. "Yes," said Lydia, all hope and exhilaration. "Yes, I can." And away they went. the three together, prancing, leaping, gamboling into the future.

fret over Batty,