Allan Boesak Quotes

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Separate not thyself from the community.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Society is unity in diversity.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

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

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Walk beside me that we may be as one.

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

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

The world is full of negativity and scary news, terrible things happening. And then we have Eurovision, which is like the whole of Europe and the whole world just comes together, and celebrates love and everybody supports everybody.

What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

Sport represents a union of diversity.

At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.