Quotes About Unity

In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

'The White Princess' follows Princess Lizzie, who was forced into marriage with Henry Tudor. It's kind of about how their marriage united the Yorks and the Tudors - the two families do rival but have to unite.

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.

I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

Our leaders should certainly engage passionate advocacy of needed reforms, and equally strong criticism of policies they believe are destructive to America. But, from the school boards to the White House, let's elect more candidates who are committed to constructive dialogue and reasonable compromises.

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

If there were things I felt the White House needed to be doing differently, I'd probably call them. I have a saying, and I had this in Michigan as chair, which is, 'We're a family.' When you have a difference of opinion in your family, you don't go on 'Jerry Springer'; you pick up the phone, and you call your family member.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

I wish that a White House celebration of your athletic achievements could be free from politics.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.