Barack Obama Quotes

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.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

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

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.

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

I hope that I can find the common thread that connects us all and say: We can build a better Canada together.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.