Quotes About Unity

Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

There is a mighty interconnection in man's struggle for freedom, a singleness of purpose and endeavor which binds together those who struggle for human liberation, whatever land they live in, whatever tongue they speak, whatever race bears them.

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast aside together.

But the shouts and smell of smoke had a powerful effect on me. I don't say they excited me, but they gave a sort of universality to what I was feeling. I am who I am because I am not them - well, I was not alone in feeling that. We were all who we were because we were not them. So why did that translate into hate? I don't know, but when everyone's feeling the same thing it can appear to be reasonableness.

So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

Now, you and I cannot go two ways at the same time while we join in these merry doings; so we will e'en let Little John follow his own path while we tuck up our skirts and trudge after Robin Hood.

Many of us spent time talking with the men and women who had lived through Katrina, and we heard stories of not only individual sacrifice and loss, but also of neighbors taking care of neighbors. The power of community was so evident in New Orleans.

I've never thought of the third place just as a physical environment. For me, the third place has always been a feeling. An emotion. An aspiration that all people can come together and be uplifted as a result of a sense of belonging. This is the cornerstone of our business, yes, but "belonging" is also a basic human right, which should be afforded all members of a society.

Less than 1 percent of our population have served our military abroad since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Add their direct family members, and they still amount to less than 5 percent of the nation. Most Americans have no skin in the game.

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or independent or Libertarian, it doesn't matter," I said. "I think we all have a sense that there's something not quite right [in the country], that we're drifting toward mediocrity.

But I do think effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

For me, the idea of a "third place" is not just something that exists between four walls. It is a mind-set. A way to exist in the world. That's why I set out to build a profitable business that also expressed a core ethos: that people of all kinds can come together and uplift one another.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Your station in life does not define you. The promise of America is for all of us.

What separates us from God is our own sense of separateness.

When we love God, love our brothers and sisters, and love ourselves, our Maker is pleased.

presence of the great light, center of all being,

A man is a man, no more, no less. The awareness of this fact marks the supreme moment of human dignity.

The effective possibility of a vital religious fellowship which is so creative in character, so convincing in quality that it inspires the mind to multiply experiences of unity—which experiences of unity become over and over and over again more compelling than the concepts, the ways of life, the sects, and creeds that separate men.

Work and rest are one entity.