Audre Lorde Quotes

All the world looks to this nation for its future, for the leadership that is required at this moment. And we cannot give that leadership and we cannot offer it if we are split up in guerilla groups chewing on each other.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Every kingdom divided against itself shall be desolated.

I guess it's human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken seriously, it can confuse people - especially when it moves from being about where you want to go and what you want to do to why the others are idiots.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

The difference breeds hatred.

Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.