Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes

We need to build relationships, not walls.

I'm about unity.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

We Are One

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.

Sport represents a union of diversity.

End of the day, when you do something, you have to do something where you bring people together. You can't do something where you separate people.

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.

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

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

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.

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

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

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

Separate not thyself from the community.

One people out of many.

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

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.

Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.