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"When
strangers start acting like neighbors...communities
are reinvigorated."
-- Ralph Nader
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We
are a gentle angry people
We are a land of many colors
We are gay and straight together
We are a peaceful loving people
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
-- Holly Near
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All
the nations and peoples are too closely knit together
today for any one of them to imagine that it can
live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible,
so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also
is disaster in this one world that can no longer
be split into isolated fragments."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
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We
have a stake in one another ... what binds us
together is greater than what drives us apart,
and ... if enough people believe in the truth
of that proposition and act on it, then we might
not solve every problem, but we can get something
meaningful done for the people with whom we share
this Earth.
-- Barack Obama
There
is not a liberal America and a conservative America
- there is the United States of America. There
is not a black America and a white America and
latino America and asian America - there's the
United States of America.
-- Barack Obama
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We
will remember that we are not as divided as our politics
suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation
and together, we will begin the next great chapter in
the American story with three words that will ring from
coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:-- Yes. We.
Can.
-- Barack Obama
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"The
World is my country, all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
-- Thomas Paine.
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Share
our similarities, celebrate our differences."
-- M. Scott Peck
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The
social progress, order, security and peace of each country
are necessarily connected with the social progress,
order, security and peace of all other countries.
-- Pope John XXIII
"If
you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your
hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
-- Pope Pius VI
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We
must realize the truth of ourselves --- we are
one human family. One a part of the other. My
old work horse Teddy and the fancy registered
horse visiting us had no trouble eating out of
the same dish. We must discover the same.
-- Sister Lucy
Poulin
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"Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity."
-- Psalms. CXXXIII: 1
"All
people are a single nation."
-- Qu-ran
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Technology
is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming
like one family. With the global threats resulting
from science and technology, the whole of humankind
now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty
to the whole of the human race.
-- Joseph Rotblat
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Whatever
system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important
that it carries the people with it. We need to convey
the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind,
will require developing in each of us a new loyalty:
a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of
a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to
become world citizens.
-- Joseph Rotblat
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There
can be hope only for a society which acts as one
big family, not as many separate ones.
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There
is only one man in the world and his name is All Men.
There is only one woman in the world and her name is
All Women. There is only one child in the world and
the child’s name is All Children.
-- Carl Sandburg
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if
you can just see all the children of the world
as your own, all the mothers of the world as you
are, we can make a huge difference.
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"If
you walk down the street and see someone in a
box, you have a choice. That person is either
the other and you're fearful of them, or that
person is an extension of your family."
-- Susan Sarandon
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"Live
and let live."
-- Scottish proverb
States
are more like people than they are like anything else:
they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And
peace between states is also like peace between people.
It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in
the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
-- Roger Scruton
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The
best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple
but far-reaching recognition that we all have
many different associations and affiliations,
and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly
divided by a single categorization of hardened
groups, which confront each other.
-- Amartya
Sen
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Any
classification according to a singular identity polarizes
people in a particular way, but if we take note of the
fact that we have many different identities - related
not just to religion but also to language, occupation
and business, politics, class and poverty, and many
others - we can see that the polarization of one can
be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding
are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.
-- Amartya Sen
But
once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to
be quintessentially Western have also flourished in
other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are
not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We
need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground,
about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.
-- Amartya Sen
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We
are members one of another; so that you cannot
injure or help your neighbor without injuring
or helping yourself.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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"The
primary threat to nature and people today comes
from centralising and monopolising power and control.
Not until diversity is made the logic of production
will there be a chance for sustainability, justice
and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity
is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana Shiva
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Uniformity
is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
~ Vandana Shiva
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cultural
differences should not separate us from each other,
but rather cultural diversity brings a collective
strength that can benefit all of humanity.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
intercultural
dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful,
just and sustainable world.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Okay,
we are different it's true.
And I don't like to do all the things that you
do.
But here's one thing to think through,
You're a lot like me and I'm a lot like you!
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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"I
am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the
world."
-- Socrates
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Just
imagine how boring life would be if we were all
the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in
which we really appreciated each other's differences:
Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white;
gay, straight--a world in which all of us are
equal, but definitely not the same.
-- Barbra
Streisand
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"The
age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come."
-- Charles Sumner
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