Maxime Bernier Quotes

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

I think all of us naturally want to be a part of a community... at home and at work.

You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

Being part of a team that belongs to everyone makes me feel good and at peace with myself.

We're reminded yet again: we are stronger, we are smarter, we have more fun when we include each other - when we include as many perspectives as possible.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

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