What
divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
-- US Senator Edward Kennedy
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"Our
most basic common link is that we all inhabit this
planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish
our children's future. And we are all mortal."
-- John
F. Kennedy |
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Ultimately,
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity,
the very diversity which our heritage of religious
freedom has inspired.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy |
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"The
Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught
us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by
word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness
of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow
men.'"
-- Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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"We
may have all come on different ships, but we're
in the same boat now." -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"We
must learn to live together as brothers, or we
are going to perish together as fools." --
Martin Luther
King, Jr
We
have learned to fly the air like birds and swim
the sea like fish, but we have not learned the
simple art of living together as brothers.
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
"The
hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined
nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace
and brotherhood."
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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I
look forward confidently to the day when all who work
for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness
as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions.
This will be the day when we bring into full realization
the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream
of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property
widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will
not take necessities from the many to give luxuries
to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue
that the color of a man's skin determines the content
of his character; a dream of a nation where all our
gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone,
but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity;
the dream of a country where every man will respect
the dignity and worth of the human personality.
--
Martin Luther King,
Jr
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I
have a dream that my four children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
--
Martin Luther King,
Jr
I
have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and
live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these
truths to be self-evident: that all men are created
equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills
of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slaveowners will be able to sit down together
at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day
even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering
with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed
into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream
that my four children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin but by the content of their character. I have a
dream today.
--
Martin Luther King,
Jr
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"What
we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our
differences until our differences don’t make a difference
in how we are treated."
-- Yolanda
King |
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"Don't
become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds
of people. You'll learn something from everyone.
Follow what you feel in your heart."
-- Yuri
Kochiyama
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"The American ideal is not that we all agree with
each other, or even like each other, every minute
of the day. It is rather that we will respect each
other's rights, especially the right to be different,
and that, at the end of the day, we will understand
that we are one people, one country, and one community,
and that our well-being is inextricably bound up
with the well-being of each and every one of our
fellow citizens."
-- C. Everett Koop
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"There
will be peace on earth when there is peace among the
world religions."
-- Hans Küng
mitakuye
oyasin (we are all related)
~ Lakota
Know
that although in the eternal scheme of things you are
small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are
all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
-- Margaret Laurence
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Imagine
no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
-- John Lennon
And
so Happy Christmas for black and for white,
for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
-- John Lennon
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"Either
men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die
like beasts."
-- Max Lerner
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where
there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
-- Max Lerner (The Gifts of the Magi, 1949)
The
prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is
the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous,
most truly alive in the work of our time.
-- Walter Lippman
All
your strength in is your union. All your danger is in
discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as
brothers live together.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Our
cause is the cause of equality between nations and
peoples. Only thus can the brotherhood of man be
firmly established.
-- Chief Albert John
Lutuli |
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Our
cultural strength has always been derived from
our diversity of understanding and experience.
-- Yo-Yo Ma
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When
you learn something from people, or from a culture,
you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong
commitment to preserve it and build on it.
-- Yo-Yo Ma
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“When
we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our
understanding of our own lives."
-- Yo-Yo Ma
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It's
like everybody's sitting there and they have some
kind of veil over their face, and they look at
each other through this veil that makes them see
each other through some stereotypical kind of
viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin
to grapple with the problems that we have collectively,
we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal
with each other on a more human level.
-- Wilma Mankiller
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"The
crest and crowning of all good,
Life's final star, is Brotherhood."
-- Edwin Markham
"There
is a destiny which makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone."
-- Edwin Markham
Understand
the differences; Act on the commonalities.
-- Andrew Masondo, African National Congress
There
are a number of attributes of species and populations
that are not of any particular selective advantage to
any single individual in a population but that are of
great advantage to the population as a whole.
-- Ernst Mayr
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"If
we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human
potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary
social fabric, one in which each diverse gift
will find a fitting place."
-- Margaret Mead
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"We
cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect
us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic
threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back
to us as effects."
-- Herman Melville
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"I
resolutely believe that respect for diversity
is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of
racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no
excuse for evading the responsibility of finding
the most suitable path toward the elimination
of any expression of discrimination against indigenous
peoples."
-- Rigoberta Menchú
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"The
whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness
of the interdependence of all these living beings,
which are all part of one another, and all involved
in one another."
-- Thomas Merton
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"Love
thy neighbor."
-- Thales of Miletus (640 - 546 B.C.)
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It
is hardly possible to overrate the value, for
the improvement of human beings, of things which
bring them into contact with persons dissimilar
to themselves and with modes of thought and action
unlike those with which they are familiar... It
is indispensable to be perpetually comparing [one's]
own notions and customs with the experience and
example of persons in different circumstances...
There is no nation which does not need to borrow
from others.
-- John Stuart Mill
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The
peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind
when it engages another equally open one.
-- Toni Morrison
Identity
is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully.
All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious,
sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after
a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave
you and close you to the rest of the world.
-- Murathan Mungan
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