Johnetta B. Cole Quotes

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.

If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.

With clever and mature people, it becomes clear: you shake hands, and look together towards the same goal.

Talk to people about what our real choices are... Our way works better... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.

We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

We should be breaking down barriers not building walls. We're not going to succeed by dividing this country between us and them. You know, to be great, we can't be small. We can't lose what made America great in the first place.

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

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

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

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

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working together.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

We must ask people to forget about the past and to live for the future.

Comprise should not be a dirty word. It should be what we all strive to achieve jointly.

You can’t build a united nation on the basis of revenge.

While significant differences between our governments continue, the progress of the last two years reminds the world of what is possible when we are defined not by the past but by the future we can build together.

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.