Howard Thurman Quotes

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Immigrants and Native Americans have made our country what it is today, and if we've learned anything through these hundreds of years - it should be that we can accomplish more when we work together.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

Society is unity in diversity.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.