Emily Rachel Silverstein

(1989-2009)

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This website is dedicated to continuing the legacy of Emily Rachel Silverstein, our beautiful 19 year old daughter who was murdered on April 9, 2009. Emily's compassion, passion and creativity touched many lives. She believed that a better world was possible and was an active leader in the quest for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. Please support the EMILY Silverstein Fund, whose mission is to inspire and empower young people to recognize that each of us can make a difference.
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Quotes For Unity In Diversity

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As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
-- Eknath Easwaran

* "A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
-- Albert Einstein

"There is the sky, which is all men's together..."
-- Euripides (412 B.C.)

* “...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work...We’re all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can."
-- Ralph Fiennes

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
-- Anne Frank

* We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
* "I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it's humiliating. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people."
-- Eduardo Galeano

* All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family

"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

* "My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
-- William Lloyd Garrison

* Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences
-- Mikhail Gorbachev

* We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.
-- Herbie Hancock

* We cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
-- Dorothy Height

I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
-- Robert M. Hensel

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.
-- Robert M. Hensel

"The minute we become an integrated whole, we look through the same eyes and we see a whole different world together."
-- Azizah Al-Hibri

* "Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe."
-- Langston Hughes


"Toleration is the best religion."
-- Victor Hugo

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality…
-- John Hume

* Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.
-- John Hume

"As we grow in awareness of one another – whether two people beginning a romance or two disparate and far-removed strangers taking an interest in the other's culture – a wonderful thing begins to happen: we begin to care for the other as if the other is part of us. This is the magic of life that our ancient teachers have bid us to see; the invisible filaments of interconnectedness that bind us together in love and appreciation."
-- Scott A. Hunt

This is peace with dignity. This is peace with commitment. This is our gift to our peoples and the generations to come…It will be real, as we open our hearts and minds to each other.
-- King Ibn Talal Hussein of Jordan

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."
-- Irish proverb

* Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow- red, yellow, brown, black and white- and we're all precious in God's sight. ...
-- Jesse Jackson

"My hope is for us to come together not only embracing shared beliefs and values, but acknowledging our differences in ways that promote respect and appreciation. To ask for a shared vision is a fair and legitimate human proposal; what is not fair and legitimate is to dictate the ways on how we get there. If we are to emerge from the long shadows that can engulf us, we must talk with each other, come to understand each other, and renew ourselves and our perceptions of each other."
-- Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah

* Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."
-- Jerome K. Jerome

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
-- Pope John XXIII

"As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?"
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

 

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