Nelson Mandela Quotes

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

Together with this Brazilian people, we will build a new nation.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.

I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

Despite whatever agreement there may be between some of us, let us never forget that we are all working whole-heartedly and humbly for the same goal-a country of peace, abundance and prosperity-for all of our people of all races, of all groups-whoever they may be, wherever they may live.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

I am going to bring everybody together.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

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.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Our nation must come together to unite.

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Things in general will be conducted as of old. All parties that were run out have returned and no further effort will be made to drive them away….. A new dance house was opened Saturday night where all the warriors met and settled their past differences and everything was made lovely and serene. All opposing factions, both saloon men and gamblers met and agreed to stand by each other for the good of their trade. Not an unlooked for result.

Unite

The Jews must be refused everything as a separate nation, and be granted everything as individuals.... There cannot be a nation within a nation.