Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

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.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Can we all get along?

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls.

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.