Quotes About Unity

Our ability to create change in others is often and importantly grounded in shared personal relationships, which create a pre-suasive context for assent. It's a poor trade-off, then, for social influence when we allow present-day forces of separation—distancing societal changes, insulating modern technologies—to take a shared sense of human connection out of our exchanges. The relation gets removed, leaving just the ships, passing at sea.87 UNITY

Cuando la gente actúa al unísono, no solo se ven a sí mismos como más parecidos, sino que después se evalúan unos a otros más positivamente.

Si no tenemos paz es porque hemos olvidado que nos pertenecemos unos a otros.

the recipe for disharmony was quick and easy: Just separate the participants into groups and let sit for a while in their own juices.

Em condições normais, você torce por seu sexo, sua cultura, sua localidade [...] e o que você quer provar é que você é melhor do que a outra pessoa. Seja quem for a pessoa por quem você torce, ela representa você; e quando vence, você vence.

Americans who are angry and suspicious of one another will fight over the crumbs rather than join together against those who have run off with most of the pie.

What we have lost, I think, is a sense of our connectedness to each other and to our ideals—the America that John F. Kennedy asked that we contribute to.

My conclusion is that the only way to reverse course is for the vast majority who now lack influence over the rules of the game to become organized and unified

One explanation for their complicity is that Trump's divisiveness is politically helpful to them. It keeps Americans fighting each other rather than discovering their common interest in fighting oligarchy.

When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality. Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not. President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.

Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

The rage for 'identity' too often bespeaks a preference for simplicity rather than for complexity.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.