Jesse Jackson Quotes

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black country clubs. It's very important when we integrate ourselves, and it helps us to have a better understanding of the world, to people all over the world and this is the time in history that we have become very aware of how important that is, so I think it's just really-we have to know each other and work together and play together in order to write about each other.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

If the Arab citizen will feel at home in our state … if the state will help him in a truthful and dedicated way to reach the economic, social, and cultural level of the Jewish community, then Arab distrust will accordingly subside and a bridge will be built to a Semitic, Jewish-Arab Alliance.

We have to insist that those who come to us show a willingness to integrate that corresponds to our readiness to integrate them.

People cutting across caste and communal lines like me. I go to north Karnataka, where people from all communities come to my meetings and rallies.

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.