"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.)
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
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"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 |
"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
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
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
The
love of one's country is a natural thing. But why
should love stop at the border.
-- Pablo Casals
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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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.
-- Euguene
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 |
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The
wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of
a great soul is the whole world
-- Democritus
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
As
we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other
people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
-- Eknath Easwaran
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"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.)
"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 |
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"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
"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."
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Peace
is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity,
in the comparison and conciliation of differences
-- Mikhail
Gorbachev |
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"The
minute we become an integrated whole, we look through
the same eyes and we see a whole different world together."
-- Azizah Al-Hibri
"Toleration
is the best religion."
-- Victor Hugo
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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
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"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 |
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"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
"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
What
divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
-- US Senator Edward Kennedy
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"Our
most basic common link is that we all inhabit
this planet. We all breathe the same air. We
all cherish our children's future. And we are
all mortal."
-- John
F. Kennedy |
"The
Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught
us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by
word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness
of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's
fellow men.'"
-- Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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"We
may have all come on different ships, but
we're in the same boat now."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"We
must learn to live together as brothers, or
we are going to perish together as fools."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"The
hope of a secure and livable world lies with
disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated
to justice, peace and brotherhood."
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr
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I
look forward confidently to the day when all who work
for a living will be one with no thought to their
separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other
distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into
full realization the American dream -- a dream yet
unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of
privilege and property widely distributed; a dream
of a land where men will not take necessities from
the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a
land where men will not argue that the color of a
man's skin determines the content of his character;
a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources
are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments
of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of
a country where every man will respect the dignity
and worth of the human personality.
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr
I
have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold
these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal." I have a dream that one day on the
red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and
the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit
down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a
dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice
and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis
of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four
children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character. I have a dream
today.
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr
"There
will be peace on earth when there is peace among the
world religions."
-- Hans Küng
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And
so this is Xmas for black and for white, for
yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
-- John
Lennon
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"Either
men will learn to live like brothers, or they will
die like beasts."
-- Max Lerner
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but
where there is no brotherhood there can in the end
be no peace."
-- Max Lerner (The Gifts of the Magi, 1949)
The
prophecy of a world moving toward political unity
is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous,
most truly alive in the work of our time.
-- Walter Lippman
All
your strength in is your union. All your danger is
in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And
as brothers live together.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Our
cause is the cause of equality between nations
and peoples. Only thus can the brotherhood of
man be firmly established.
-- Chief
Albert John Lutuli |
"The
crest and crowning of all good,
Life's final star, is Brotherhood."
-- Edwin Markham
"There
is a destiny which makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone."
-- Edwin Markham
Understand
the differences; Act on the commonalities.
-- Andrew Masondo, African National Congress
There
are a number of attributes of species and populations
that are not of any particular selective advantage
to any single individual in a population but that
are of great advantage to the population as a whole.
-- Ernst Mayr
"We
cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers
connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers,
as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes,
and they come back to us as effects."
-- Herman Melville
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"The
whole idea of compassion is based on a keen
awareness of the interdependence of all these
living beings, which are all part of one another,
and all involved in one another."
-- Thomas
Merton |
"Love
thy neighbor."
-- Thales of Miletus (640 - 546 B.C.)
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It
is hardly possible to overrate the value,
for the improvement of human beings, of things
which bring them into contact with persons
dissimilar to themselves and with modes of
thought and action unlike those with which
they are familiar... It is indispensable to
be perpetually comparing [one's] own notions
and customs with the experience and example
of persons in different circumstances... There
is no nation which does not need to borrow
from others.
-- John
Stuart Mill
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The
peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind
when it engages another equally open one.
-- Toni Morrison
Identity
is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully.
All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious,
sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after
a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave
you and close you to the rest of the world.
-- Murathan Mungan
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"When
strangers start acting like neighbors...communities
are reinvigorated."
-- Ralph
Nader |
All
the nations and peoples are too closely knit
together today for any one of them to imagine
that it can live apart. Peace has been said
to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity
now, and so also is disaster in this one world
that can no longer be split into isolated fragments."
-- Jawaharlal
Nehru |
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"The
World is my country, all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
-- Thomas
Paine. |
Share
our similarities, celebrate our differences."
-- M.
Scott Peck |
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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
"If
you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your
hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
-- Pope Pius VI
"Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity."
-- Psalms. CXXXIII: 1
"All
people are a single nation."
-- Qu-ran
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Whatever
system of governance is eventually adopted,
it is important that it carries the people with
it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding
our common property, humankind, will require
developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty
to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a
feeling of belonging to the human race. We have
to become world citizens.
-- Joseph
Rotblat |
Technology
is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming
like one family. With the global threats resulting
from science and technology, the whole of humankind
now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty
to the whole of the human race.
-- Joseph
Rotblat
There
can be hope only for a society which acts as
one big family, not as many separate ones.
-- Anwar
Sadat |
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There
is only one man in the world and his name is All Men.
There is only one woman in the world and her name
is All Women. There is only one child in the world
and the child’s name is All Children.
-- Carl Sandburg
"Live
and let live."
-- Scottish proverb
States
are more like people than they are like anything else:
they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy.
And peace between states is also like peace between
people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose,
in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
-- Roger Scruton
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We
are members one of another; so that you cannot
injure or help your neighbor without injuring
or helping yourself.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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"The
primary threat to nature and people today
comes from centralising and monopolising power
and control. Not until diversity is made the
logic of production will there be a chance
for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating
and conserving diversity is no luxury in our
times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana
Shiva
Uniformity
is not nature's way; diversity is nature's
way.
~ Vandana
Shiva
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"I
am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of
the world."
-- Socrates
"The
age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has
come."
-- Charles Sumner
"We
are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually
pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law
of nature."
-- Voltaire
We
can find common ground only by moving to higher
ground
-- Jim
Wallis |
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"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
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