Quotes About Unity

A functioning team is more than just a group of people with a common goal. It's a group of people who can work toward that common goal despite having different opinions about how to reach it. No, not everyone has the same say. No, not everyone's opinion will play a part in the end. The boss makes the final decision and will live or hang by that decision.

How do successful leaders respond when someone congratulates them on a good job? They start talking about the great team they've got working for them. How this person or that person stepped up in the effort. Or how everyone really came together to pull through. Why? Because they know what it takes to succeed. It takes a team.

A book or a work of art--culture--cannot by itself change the world, but by asking questions that matter, it might attempt to be an act of articulation against violence, the brutal and the casual kinds. It might aspire to starting a conversation through which together we might find common meaning, and words that free.

Public Enemy's theme was Black collectivity, the one thing that had been lost in the post–Civil Rights bourgeois individualist goldrush. Over the years, rap groups had shrunk down to duos, but Public Enemy brought the crew back.

But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People

The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

the one who wrote this book is the one who is reading it

The life you are trying to understand is identical with the 'you' that is trying to understand it.

Reach out for the light, yes, but love your shadows too.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'You know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

What is he like?" asked Khadgar, his voice almost pleading. "Like everyone else, I suppose." said Moroes. "Has his druthers. Has his moods. Good days and bad. Like everybody else." "puts his pants on one leg at a time," said Khadgar, sighing. "No. He levitates into them," said Moroes.

For at least one day of the year, past quarrels are forgotten and strangers are greeted as friends.

All there ever seems to be in this world anymore is war and killing, so let's enjoy fellowship and peace here for a little while before we go out into the confusion again.

Nothing is separate. Everything is one thing.

A poetry professor had once defined romance to me as "bringing two people together when every force in the universe is working to keep them apart.

Niggers just like to start shit," he said. "They don't value human interaction, let alone human life. They're just stupid, period. They walk around, trying to act hard, trying to be bangers...That's all a nigger cares about: acting hard. Fronting." "What about the brothers?" I asked. This word felt much safer. "A brother's like me. He just wants to take care of his own and chill.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. –Abraham Lincoln

As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

realize you aren't the first and only person to ever face insurmountable odds.

May we all be judged on the content of our character and not the color of our skin, and may children of every color and creed freely play together while their parents similarly form bonds of love and friendship---Jeff Parker