Quotes About Unity

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. – Linda Ellerbee

Mike ignored me and walked off. I understood the dynamic and knew that, as close as the three of us were, I was an outsider in these circumstances. The fraternity of police officers who put their lives on the line every day for the rest of us circles the wagons pretty tightly when one of their own is harmed

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Remembering place is significant, and that includes each visitor to a place, insect, plant, animal, or the passing shadow of a cloud in golden sunlight.

Our flesh has never been a boundary for the human being. We only reach out from there to occupy the space around us. Even more significantly, it occupies us.

Beauty before me, Beauty behind me, Beauty above me, Beauty below me, I walk in beauty. Smoke

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

She held me. I held her. We were one. (230)

When my father didn't have my hand . . . he had my back.

It's not hard to care about people who are like you...Your own family, and people like them. But...we have to always make the extra effort with people who aren't like us. To care about them and listen to them, especially if they'e different from us. Because that's one of the things that makes us human. It's something we can do that other animals can't.

Not revenge. Justice. And not just for us and our parents, but for the whole world.

Head Warrior was leading his and the chief's horses

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

There's love, sweet love, for one and all-- For love is best for great and small.

Strength and skill are happy comrades.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.

If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone. What kind of tide can an ocean bestow if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

All I hear is mathematics. All I see is music.

Mathemusic is the currency of the Universe.

Time is shared. The future belongs to all of us.

and suddenly I love you beyond all measure is not just words but a heart, a soul bursting open, a stripping raw of all pretense. It is Sully, it is Gabriel, it is his tears on my face, his body in mine, our minds seamless. It is hopes and dreams and failures. It is apologies and a prayer for redemption. It is heaven and damnation. All that I am is yours pales beside it. It is everything. It is love.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.