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We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.
Sep 10, 2025
We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.
We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.
Toleration is the best religion.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
The peoples of the earth are one family.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.
There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
Our true nationality is mankind.
What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
United we stand, divided we fall.
In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.