Edward Brooke Quotes

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

Education, Love & Acceptance are the First Steps to Breaking Down Barriers

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

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

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

Can we all get along?

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Peace, unity and harmony!

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

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

Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us.”

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.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.