Maya Angelou Quotes

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.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

You cannot do politics by breaking the society into pieces or creating hatred.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

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.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Let's not build a wall around ourselves just when they're coming down all over the world.

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

One united people, regardless of race, language or religion.

We see you. We stand with you.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

London's greatest strength is our diversity, and it's wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital's different traditions, determined to stand up to division.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division.