Robert Byrd Quotes

Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

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

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.

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

I want to create resolution and inclusion, so I created Black Santa because his eyes see no color.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

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

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

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

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm on a big planet with a lot of other people and concerns, maybe we can learn how to get along with each other.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.