Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

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.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

We need a cohesive society that is tolerant.

I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

I think it is important to build for people, and to deliver this message of hope: through good construction and a certain sense of progression, a better understanding of each other can be achieved.

Without strong communities, we cannot pull together during times of hardship. Our diversity turns from a source of strength to a source of conflict.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

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

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I think the Democratic Party is about family, about unity, about bringing people together. We're all in this together. We're all trying to rebuild the economy together.

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

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

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.