Josefa Iloilo Quotes

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

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

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

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

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

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

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.

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.

I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.

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.

We will not make country great by creating hatred.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

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

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.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

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

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.