Quotes about Unity
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unity has never meant uniformity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England Prayer book is always employed, though there is never a member of that Church among officers or crew. Our men are all Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other is preferred to them, and they listen with all attention and devotion, so that the system has something to recommend it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The sky may darken, and the clouds may gather, and again the day may come when Britain may have sore need of her children, on whatever shore of the sea they be found. Shall they not muster at her call?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
we have found that the whole essence of matter lies in action, a i.e. in causality: as a result, matter must also unify space and time, that is, matter must possess the properties of both time and space simultaneously
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have always wanted to be both man and woman...to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks. I would like to enter a woman the way any man can, and be entered--to leave and to be left--to be hot and hard and soft all at the same time in the cause of our loving.
— Audre Lorde
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained.
— Audre Lorde
This jugular vein psychology is based on the fallacy that your assertion or affirmation of self is an attack upon my self—or that my defining myself will somehow prevent or retard your self-definition. The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons towards a common goal.
— Audre Lorde