Scott A. Bollens Quotes

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

That's really what my work is all about - bringing kids together.

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.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Society is unity in diversity.

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.

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

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Parks and public space are … important to a democratic society because they are the only places where people meet as equals.

Given the fragility of contemporary civil and urban life … our problem is to solve the puzzle of how to live together in healthy, diverse communities.

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

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.

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

I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened.

I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls.

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

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

We are going to unite this people. We will unite whites and blacks, homosexuals and heterosexuals... We will unite bosses and employees, and we won't plant the seed of discord between them.

Our public spaces should be places that are inclusive, that bring people together.