Quotes About Division

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

I never shop - my wife takes care of all of that.

Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like.

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

If it was... let's say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I'd go to 185 before I'd go to 55.

It's hard to be a team when you're battling yourselves.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

Personally, I think what's happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn't speak for the majority of us.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

I know I belong at 170. There is not a shadow of a doubt. This is my division and there's a clearcut path to the title.

It's a dream of mine to win the division's belt.

He was seeking the presidency of a country riven not only by competing interests but by incompatible understandings of reality.

political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as "the capability of a people to govern themselves.

And where will it all end? Shall we sometime see Republicans excluding Democrats and Democrats excluding Republicans from our law-making bodies, on the ground that the other party's principles are 'inimical to the best interests' of the United States?

the fact that we have arrived at a place in the life of the nation where a grand wizard of the KKK can claim, all too plausibly, that he is at one with the will of the president of the United States seems an unprecedented moment.

To Dennis, "undoubtedly the easiest way to unite and animate large numbers in political association for action is to exploit the dynamic forces of hatred and fear.

Such hysteria was fomented, Wright noted, by appeals to poor whites for whom color was everything since they had nothing else.

The cost of partisanship for partisanship's sake—of seeing politics as blood sport, where the kill is the only object of the exercise—was, Livingston said, too high for a free society to pay.

Thomas E. Dewey—once said: "You can't divide the country up into sections and have one rule for one section and one rule for another, and you can't encourage people's prejudices. You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.

He called for unity against the forces of fear. "Now, the people that would use us and destroy us first divide us….If they divide us, they can make some hay. And all these years they have kept their foot on our necks by appealing to our animosities, and dividing us.

points ahead, working for a common good. Fear pushes away; hope pulls others closer. Fear divides; hope unifies.