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"Our
expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities,
offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and
to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the
"disuniting of America" and warnings of the "clash of civilizations." As Langston
Hughes sang, "Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe."
-- Ronald Takaki |
|
How can diverse
Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the
study of the past that includes all of us, making all of us feel connected to
one another as "we the people," working and living in a nation, founded and "dedicated"
(to use Lincoln's language) to the "proposition" that "all men are created equal."
-- Ronald Takaki
The
nation was founded and “dedicated,” to use Lincoln’s language in the “Gettysburg
Address,” to equality as a “self-evident truth.” But this very principle of equality,
as Lincoln also noted, was a “proposition.” To make it a reality remained “the
unfinished work” of Americans.
-- Ronald
Takaki
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"We
have to sit down, have a meal together, pray together and then actually talk together.
Then we realize that, yes, although we have some differences they are not impassable
differences."
-- Pauline
Tangiora |
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The
war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe
for diversity.
~ U Thant
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*
The
universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
-- Mark
Twain | 
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"We
are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies
-- it is the first law of nature."
-- Voltaire
| It just seems
clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle
is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
~Alice
Walker *
I
think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical
way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we
were brought up to.
~Alice
Walker "It's
so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these
older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to
bloom."
~Alice Walker
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We
can find common ground only by moving to higher ground
-- Jim
Wallis
|
"In
a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For
though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from
one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth."
-- J. Donald
Walters
"There
are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual
tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness,
appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and
our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for
happiness, for peace of mind -- for wisdom."
-- J. Donald Walters
|
In
all things that are purely social we can be as separate
as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential
to mutual progress.
-- Booker
T. Washington |
For those who have
seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who
will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that
we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
--
Donald Williams
"As
a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
--
Virginia Woolf
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The
oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
-- Muhammad Yunus
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