"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 |
| cultural
differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity
brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.
--
Robert Alan intercultural
dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
-- Robert
Alan Okay,
we are different it's true.
And I don't like to do all the things that you
do.
But here's one thing to think through,
You're a lot like me and I'm
a lot like you!
-- Robert
Alan |  |
"Peace requires
everyone to be in the circle – wholeness, inclusion."
-- Isabel Allende
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"We
may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but
we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi
Annan |
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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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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 |  |
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.
- The Dalai Lama |
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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 |  |
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 |
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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