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"Our
expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a
time when we will all be minorities, offers us
an invitation to create a larger memory of who
we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding
principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of
the "disuniting of America" and warnings of the
"clash of civilizations." As Langston Hughes sang,
"Let America be America, where equality is in
the air we breathe."
-- Ronald Takaki
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can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe
that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past
that includes all of us, making all of us feel connected
to one another as "we the people," working and living
in a nation, founded and "dedicated" (to use Lincoln's
language) to the "proposition" that "all men are created
equal."
-- Ronald Takaki
The
nation was founded and “dedicated,” to use Lincoln’s
language in the “Gettysburg Address,” to equality as
a “self-evident truth.” But this very principle of equality,
as Lincoln also noted, was a “proposition.” To make
it a reality remained “the unfinished work” of Americans.
-- Ronald Takaki
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"We
have to sit down, have a meal together, pray together
and then actually talk together. Then we realize
that, yes, although we have some differences they
are not impassable differences."
-- Pauline Tangiora
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The
war we have to wage today has only one goal and
that is to make the world safe for diversity.
~ U Thant
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The
universal brotherhood of man is our most precious
possession.
-- Mark Twain
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"We
are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually
pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law
of nature."
-- Voltaire
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It
just seems clear to me that as long as we are
all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle
is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
~Alice Walker
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I
think we have to own the fears that we have of
each other, and then, in some practical way, some
daily way, figure out how to see people differently
than the way we were brought up to.
~Alice Walker
"It's
so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I
think that's what I get from these older black
women, that every soul is to be cherished, that
every flower is to bloom."
~Alice Walker
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We
can find common ground
only by moving to higher ground
-- Jim Wallis
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"In
a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense,
however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate,
and may even be situated at great distances from one
another, they are only extrusions of the same planet,
Earth."
-- J. Donald Walters
"There
are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality,
language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so
do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation,
and support from others. We need to understand our environment
and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain
inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of
mind -- for wisdom."
-- J. Donald Walters
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In
all things that are purely social we can be as separate
as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things
essential to mutual progress.
-- Booker T.
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For
those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the
hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience
most certainly changes your perspective. The things
that we share in our world are far more valuable than
those which divide us.
-- Donald Williams
"As
a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is
the whole world."
-- Virginia Woolf
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The
oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread
that holds us together.
-- Muhammad Yunus
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