The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

I only see clearly what I remember.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.