Quotes About Unity

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

"Happy marriage" is a contradiction in terms.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

Make coffee, not war,

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they'll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

thrust out their right arms

The force is with us all.

These struggles required teamwork, innovation, and advancement.

People have an innate tendency to almost instantly form discrete groups. And almost instantly become biased against anyone in a different group.

Absolutely. Dash and Dash have become the best of friends with himselves.

Cultures and national belief systems that maintain their integrity can add to diversity. I'm a strong believer in melting pot societies, but enclaves of distinctiveness are important too. As long as every nation, and every diverse group within every nation, is accepting of others.

An impressive group," said the admiral, "with an even more impressive team dynamic. On paper, there is no way a collection of hardened military men, inexperienced civilians, and quirky genius scientists should get along so well." "I think the secret is that they're all decent, caring people," said Cochran. "And they've been through hell and back together." "They're

Precise knowledge of how all things are entangled with all others at the quantum level.

infinite intelligence who fragmented Himself to experience existence—to

There was a great joke in there somewhere. A Jewish girl, an ex-priest, and a Muslim god go into a bar . . . .

Shared belief in an absurdity is a much better indicator of loyalty than shared belief in the truth. And it's a much better way to create group cohesion. If a leader asks you to believe that the sky is blue, and you do, what does that prove? The truth is easy. But if he requires his followers to believe the sky is green, they quickly distance themselves from non-believers and become firmly united in a shared delusion.

from Booker T. Washington himself: "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

And when we allow freedom to ring . . . we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

make you see double and feel single!

When people believe in Christ, they become identified with one another in an intimate association and incur both the benefits and responsibilities of that communion. Philemon is fundamentally all about those responsibilities, as Paul, Onesimus, and Philemon, bound together in faith, are forced by circumstances to think through the radical implications of their koinnia.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.