Quotes About Unity

It's going to take every American playing on the same team - and everyone trying to be the best version of themselves - to make America great.

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

Relationships between seemingly separate ideas can start to make their own whole when we stand at a distance, searching for patterns.

And then I felt a strange stirring inside, a kind of surging fulfillment, a feeling that things were just the way they should be, now and evermore, world without end; that what was brought together here must never be rent asunder.

Show that good old team spirit. Wave the flag, give 'em hell, and all that.

Ichioka, Gee, Ichioka's brother Victor, Vicci Wong, Floyd Huen, and Richard Aoki—dubbed themselves the "Asian-American Political Alliance," coining "Asian-American" in emulation of their Afro-American fellows

This wasn't the first time Asians of different ethnicities had been classified as a single group: at various times before this moment, we'd been lumped together as "Mongoloids," "Orientals," "Asiatics," and a variety of interchangeable slurs related to the color of our skin, the shape of our eyes, and the things we eat (or are alleged to eat).

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The past is dead; let it bury it's dead, its hopes and aspirations; before you lies the future. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished--a reunited country.

Mr. President, is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they can not profitably live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand, are they not their life-blood? And think you, if one portion of the Union, however great it might be in commerce and manufactures, was separated from all the agricultural districts, that it would long maintain its supremacy

the English and the Americans were divided by a common language.

Legend has it that they were never apart for more than a few hours.

No man is an island,' John Donne wrote more than three and a half centuries ago. 'Every man is a piece of the continent.' The United States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Arctic to the Equator. 'I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

We worked together, we studied together, we played together, but we slept alone.

not a single woman

all Men are created equal

I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorways, Don't block up the halls…For the times they are a changin'.

They [the dogs] danced in excited harmany... From The Cutting Edge.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.