Quotes About Unity

We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation.

All human beings have noses, eyes, arms, legs, hearts, stomachs, and so far as I have been able to

But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward the future.

The SOUL of a NATION is found in its PEOPLE.

want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.

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All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

When we start to ask ourselves, "Does it matter?" we realize how many aspects there are to every situation. We begin to appreciate how interconnected we are to the rest of the world, and how even our thought patterns can lead to a whole series of consequences

Consciously or unconsciously, we carry around concepts of "us" and "them," "right" and "wrong," "worthy" and "unworthy." In this framework, there's not much room for a middle ground; everything is at one pole or another. When groups of people or whole nations get together around these concepts, they can become hugely magnified, which may result in large-scale suffering: discrimination, oppression, war.

When you connect with your own suffering, reflect that countless beings at this very moment are feeling exactly what you feel. Their story line is different, but the feeling of pain is the same. When

Strive at first to meditate Upon the sameness of yourself and others. In joy and sorrow all are equal. Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. We

Just like me, this person doesn't want to feel uncomfortable. Just like me, this person loses it sometimes. Just like me, this person doesn't want to be disliked. Just like me, this person wants to have friends and intimacy.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. —MAHATMA GANDHI

Our story lines are different, but when it comes to pain and pleasure and our reaction to them, people everywhere are the same.

The point is that we can dissolve the sense of dualism between us and them, between this and that, between here and there, by moving toward what we find difficult and wish to push away.

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die. —CHIEF SEATTLE

Everything is equally precious and whole and good, and everyone is equally precious and whole and good.

when we harm another, we are harming ourselves.

the best way to serve ourselves is to love and care for others. These are powerful tools for dissolving the barriers that perpetuate the suffering of all beings.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.