Wesley Clark Quotes

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

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

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

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.

We have to look beyond what we see as the typical, the 'normal package,' and just see people as who they are. We all have to learn and get along a little better in society.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

You can be for someone without being against someone else.