Joe Arpaio Quotes

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.

To achieve progress in the face of adversity, we need a genuine commitment to gaining a deeper understanding of humanity. I'd like to see a world with more leaders who are familiar with the depths of the views of those they deeply disagree with, so that they can understand the nuances of everyone they're representing.

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.

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

We develop sentiments that we are only going to work with people like us. But you don't build up a nation by working with people like you. You overcome a history of conflict by reaching out to people very much unlike you.

What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.

In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.

I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world.

The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to racism, yet far less confident in talking to each other as human beings with similar hopes, problems and aspirations.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

There are so many issues, so many opportunities to bring people together who have different perspectives, to develop action plans, and to have a significant impact on those issues.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

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.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

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

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.