Quotes About Unity

Do you think you and Sorel will be together forever?" "Of course. Either in each other's company, as we are now, or separate and in each other's world. One takes on others as family and continually reshapes that meaning—family—but you do not break blood ties. We may not wish to live together at all times, but we will always be with each other.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her

He pointed me to a chair. "Making a clean break with your black family, that's good. We absolutely support you.

You can tell your parents you'll follow Chairman Mao, not them. If they give you any trouble, just come here and tell us. We'll go to their work units and hold struggle meetings against them… .

As soon as I said it, I realized that I had made my promise to them—to everyone in my family—long ago. I had promised during the days that Grandma and I had hidden in the park; I had promised when I had not testified against Dad; I had promised when I had hidden the letter. I would never do anything to hurt my family, and I would do everything I could to take care of them. My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

We were proud of our precious red scarves, which, like the national flag, were dyed red with the blood of our revolutionary martyrs. We

As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. —Abraham Lincoln, 1862

the United States is founded on a set of ideas, but Americans have become so divided that they no longer agree, if they ever did, about what those ideas are, or were.

It has often been said, in the twenty-first century and in earlier centuries, too, that Americans lack a shared past and that, built on a cracked foundation, the Republic is crumbling.

Paine wrote with fury, and he wrote with flash. "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind," he announced. "' Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent—of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe.

We may lose the sense of totality almost at once, but the psyche and body have experienced what wholeness is. They can then reconnect to that still point as to a tuning fork.

Where consciousness and the unconscious intersect at the still point, that is where we are whole.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

If it's going to be two against one, make sure you aren't the one.

sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.

Opposing ideas can be simultaneously true; one reinforces the other even as they're both canceled out.