Unity quotes

Unity

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Malcolm X
Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister

"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity."

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Statesman, Founder of Republic

"Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity."

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Frances Harper Author, Activist
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"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."

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Stephen Harper Politician
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"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."

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Pythagoras Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God"

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
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"It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees."

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Thomas Wolfe Novelist
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"The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other."

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