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
|
*
Ultimately,
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which
our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy |  |
"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
|
*
"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
|  |
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
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
*
"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 |  |
| *
"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 |  |
| 
|
"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 |
"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
| 
|
*
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 |
"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
 | 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 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 *
“When
we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives."
-- Yo-Yo Ma |
| *
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 |
|
"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
*
"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 |
|
"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
| *
"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
Menchu |  |
 | *
"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 |
"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 |
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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