Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

Let's not build a wall around ourselves just when they're coming down all over the world.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

I'm about unity.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Separate not thyself from the community.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.

We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.

You cannot do politics by breaking the society into pieces or creating hatred.

We need to focus on being one Baltimore.

I hope that I can find the common thread that connects us all and say: We can build a better Canada together.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.