Walter Washington Quotes

I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.

Diversity does not preclude political stability.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Raising the self-esteem of minority groups is one of the most strategic means for the improvement of inter-group relations.

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

You can’t throw a park down and think everybody is going to mix and be happy and share picnic tables and sing songs together.

I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.

Society can't function without shared prosperity.

There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.

We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life.

I think it is important to build for people, and to deliver this message of hope: through good construction and a certain sense of progression, a better understanding of each other can be achieved.

I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.

We are going to unite this people. We will unite whites and blacks, homosexuals and heterosexuals... We will unite bosses and employees, and we won't plant the seed of discord between them.

One of my key areas of unification is to champion multiracialism. Multiracialism is vital to unity.

You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

Only if we stand together as one voice, can we ensure that the message is sent and that hate will not be tolerated no matter where it lives in our society.

In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on a mural in Tiger's Bay, because boxing brings the communities together.

We must never forget that Singapore is home for all races and this harmonious relationship must not be taken for granted.

Sectarian political festivals are not the way Londoners want their money to be spent. Most of us, I suspect, just want to be trusted to get on with other people and not be instructed by activists about the dangers of racism.