John F. Kennedy Quotes

All sides must learn to respect one another.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Can we all get along?

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

We stand on the watershed dividing the past from the future. Let us bury the past in so far as it is dead and forget all bitterness and recrimination. Let there be moderation in speech and writing.... There has been violence—shameful, degrading and revolting violence—in various parts of the country. This must end. We are determined to end it. We must make it clear that political ends ae not to be achieved by methods of violence now or in the future.

Now the question is, how can we make our two peoples, both of whom love peace, come closer together.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

I see myself as a bridge-builder who can understand both sides.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

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

The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.