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Quotes About Integration

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.
~ Alain de Botton
We were bothered by sex because it is a fundamentally disruptive, overwhelming and demented force, strongly at odds with the majority of our ambitions and all but incapable of being discreetly integrated within civilized society.
~ Alain de Botton
see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the beauty of the landscape is broken up by these, for they are not yet consecrated in their reading. But the true poet sees them fall within the great order of nature not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web. Nature adopts them very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own'.
~ Alain de Botton
You will not achieve work/life balance as long as you believe there is a difference between the two. When you find life in your work and work with your life, you will have only life.
~ Alan Cohen
The Tao does not separate, but enfolds.
~ Alan Cohen
It's cheaper to put an entire microprocessor in your car key, microwave, or cell phone than it is to put in discrete chips and electronic components. Thus, a new technical economy drives the design of the product.
~ Alan Cooper
Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits.
~ Alan Dean Foster
to be fully human is tying together the heart and the head, and by doing this, we can be more aware of the threads that connect us.
~ Alan Graham
Everything is connected.
~ Alan Moore
time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of the problem appeared to be the substantial disparities in the resources provided to black students relative to white students. Many, including myself, decided that given the difficulty of integrating black and Latino students with their swiftly fleeing white counterparts, we should concentrate on desegregating the money.
~ Derrick Bell
A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students in the classroom either for special instruction or in response to the black students' requests.
~ Derrick Bell
The Underground Railway had brought thirty thousand refugees from American slavery, but many went home after the Civil War, tired of being poor, patronized, or scorned by Canada's white majority.
~ Desmond Morton
Peace comes when one comes to terms with the three worlds: the personal world, the cultural world and the natural world.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
establish a world where the head is balanced with the heart, wealth with wisdom, and discipline with compassion. Come,
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Spiritual journey is the process of synthesis, of integration, when he can say, "I am this and I am that too." That
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.
~ Diana Butler Bass
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
~ Diane Wakoski
It is becoming clearer every day that the most urgent problem besetting our Church is this: How can we live the Christian life in the modern world?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Holy Scripture does not consist of individual passages; it is a unit and is intended to be used as such.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
~ Dion Fortune
The body is the vehicle of the mind.
~ Dion Fortune
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
~ Djuna Barnes
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.
~ Doménico Cieri Estrada
Know then, first, the mind and the body. Then as the spirit is integrated and synthesized, those are harmonized into a mind/body/spirit complex which can move among the dimensions and which can open the gateway to intelligent infinity, thus healing self by light and sharing that light with others.
~ Don Elkins