Amity Gaige Quotes

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Since the struggle for our nation's independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.

If we stand together as Singaporeans, there is not a force in this world that can tear us apart.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.