"All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together."
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"If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here."
"A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve."
"The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths."
"The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us."
"People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives."
"When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation."
"In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others."
"We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history."
"Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it."
"Liberation means you don't have to be silenced."
"Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy."
"[Diversity] is the future. You can't stop it. It's going where it's going, so I choose to be with the future."
"The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this."
"He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful."
"Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation."
"I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction."
"Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace."
"America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together."
"If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter."