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Quotes About Unity

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
~ Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.
~ Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage
Having personality does not mean being violent, rather honouring life by taking a stand. In this era so devoid of values, where people think it is safe to do everything that comes to mind, there is a need for purity. Man can and must have direction. Jews and Catholics must work together to help the man who suffers, and most importantly, look ahead.
~ Abraham Skorka
All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And his land is a place where he can no longer stay.
~ Abraham Verghese
I realized if something happens to him, it happens to me, too. If I love myself, I love him, for we are one. That makes it a risk worth taking for me - it wouldn't be for anyone else, unless they loved him.
~ Abraham Verghese
The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.
~ Abraham Verghese
fused, or—imagine this—sharing one trunk with two necks?
~ Abraham Verghese
A good story goes beyond what a forgiving God cares to do: it reconciles families and unburdens them of secrets whose bond is stronger than blood. But in their revealing, as in their keeping, secrets can tear a family apart.
~ Abraham Verghese
This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all
~ Abraham Verghese
Sisters of the Nigrizia
~ Abraham Verghese
You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had spoken; an answer from one was an answer for The Twins.
~ Abraham Verghese
This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.
~ Abraham Verghese
All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And
~ Abraham Verghese
All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous
~ Abraham Verghese
All water is connected, and her world is limitless. He stands at the limits of his.
~ Abraham Verghese
This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She
~ Abraham Verghese
The Model T's loose suspension makes them sway in unison, a rhythm conducive to confession.
~ Abraham Verghese