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

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

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.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

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

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

I love diversity.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

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

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.