Emily Greene Balch Quotes

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

A portion of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by common sympathies which do not exist between them and any others—which make them co-operate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to be under the same government, and desire that it should be government by themselves or a portion of themselves exclusively.

We are all Americans, sir.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

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

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

The country is the people.