"There
is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself.
In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind
as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not
learn it he must perish."
-- Alfred Adler
"United
we stand, divided we fall."
-- Aesop (620 -560 B.C.)
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We
have the ability to achieve, if we master the
necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed
with a shared culture of peace that is nourished
by the ethnic, national and local diversities
that enrich our lives.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami
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"Peace
requires everyone to be in the circle – wholeness, inclusion."
-- Isabel Allende
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It
is time for parents to teach young people early
on that in diversity there is beauty and there
is strength.
-- Maya Angelou
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"We
may have different religions, different languages,
different colored skin, but we all belong to one
human race."
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"There
are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we
don't come to understand that right soon, there
will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
-- Isaac Asimov
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You
cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of
mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you
preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ~
-- Faith Baldwin
It
is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance
that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
-- Pierre Bayle
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In
world history, those who have helped to build
the same culture are not necessarily of one race,
and those of the same race have not all participated
in one culture.
-- Ruth Fulton
Benedict
The
peoples of the earth are one family.
--
Ruth Fulton Benedict
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"Diversity
is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the
first beginning of the differentiation of a thing
and of simple identity. The greater the diversity,
the greater the perfection."
~ Thomas Berry
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When
you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth,
all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty
well going to blend and you're going to get a concept
that maybe this is really one world and why the hell
can't we learn to live together like decent people?
-- Frank Borman
"Toleration
is good for all, or it is good for none."
-- Edmund Burke
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We
are of course a nation of differences. Those differences
don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our
strength.
-- Jimmy Carter
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We
ought to think that we are one of the leaves of
a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot
live without the others, without the tree.
-- Pablo Casals
The
love of one's country is a splendid thing. But
why should love stop at the border?
-- Pablo Casals
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"We
live now in a global village and we are in one
single family. It’s our responsibility to bring
friendship and love from all different places
around the world and to live together in peace."
-- Jackie Chan
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Global
Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman,
and child in the United States can help to reduce
suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad,
and help us remember that in the end, all people
belong to the same human family.
-- John Conyers
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Let
us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity;
and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration
of language, nationality, or religion.
-- John Comenius, 17th century philosopher
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Internal
peace is an essential first step to achieving peace
in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very
simple. In the first place by realizing clearly
that all mankind is one, that human beings in every
country are members of one and the same family.
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Years
ago I recognized my kinship with all living things,
and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better
than the meanest on the earth. I said then and
I say now, that while there is a lower class,
I am in it; while there is a criminal element,
I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I
am not free.
-- Eugene V. Debs
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"We
need to dissolve the lie that some people have a
right to think of other people as their property.
And we need at last to form a circle that includes
us all, in which all of us are seen as equal.
-- Barbara Deming
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The
wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a
great soul is the whole world
-- Democritus
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"I
know there is strength in the differences between
us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”
-- Ani DiFranco
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No
man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent … any man's death diminishes me, because
I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to
know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
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"Human
diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue;
it makes it a requirement for survival."
~ René Dubos
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