Quotes About Unity

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.