Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will RogersChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.
Jordan PetersonYou have your ideology and I have mine.
Khalil GibranOn the other hand, you have different fingers.
Steven WrightBuilding capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader GinsburgPeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleI think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
Taylor SwiftThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth IIIt’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.
Jurgen KloppThe separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Kurt VonnegutI made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice WalkerToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeIt’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice WalkerI am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthurI loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
Clint EastwoodWe view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise PascalI see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!
Barack ObamaAmerica is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanWe believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.
Michelle ObamaI think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.
Kevin HartAt what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham LincolnYou’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe BidenGentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma GandhiIf everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry FordI love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.
Michelle ObamaAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestYou know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.
Alice WalkerIf you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.
Kevin HartThough we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma GandhiThe life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David ThoreauI’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel WashingtonNo one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. KennedyThe diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
Narendra ModiWhenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund BurkeI find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander PopeBarbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.
Anthony BourdainI know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
Noam ChomskyI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenAfter 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
Barack ObamaWe are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham LincolnI have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence NightingaleThe God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond TutuUnity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
BuddhaAs I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.
Nipsey HussleWhen I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.
Clint EastwoodA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouI really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.
Paul AusterI try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
Noam ChomskyThe Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStanding in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.
Colin PowellWhen a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamLet’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
Dolores Huerta