Quotes About Unity

It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor.

I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

On my season of 'Survivor,' the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men's butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

At the end of the day it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

We think the friendship between us is a very important aspect for our group, and we try to keep that in a very naturally, like without love, we don't have to try too hard, but it's always needs to be there. So, we remind each other all the time that, when you're going through a hard time, we have the hard time with you.

We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.

Ganesh Chaturthi is very close to my heart. The festival brings with it joy, love, and happiness for everyone.

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.

I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.