unity quotes

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

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

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

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 want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.