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• Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Technology, Race

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Race, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.135, I.B.Tauris

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• There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Men, Names

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Children, Differences

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• If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

  Susan Sarandon

  Choices, Brotherhood, Boxes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

  Roger Scruton

  People, Joy, Brotherhood

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• The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

  Amartya Sen

  Lying, Simple, Tolerance

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• But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Civilization, Ideas

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• We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Brotherhood, Helping, Neighbor

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Brotherhood, Way

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• How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past that includes all of us, making all of us feel connected to one another as "we the people," working and living in a nation, founded and "dedicated" (to use Lincoln's language) to the "proposition" that "all men are created equal."

  Ronald Takaki

  Believe, Past, Men

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• The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

  Ronald Takaki

  Reality, Unfinished Work, Self

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• The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Oneness, Brotherhood, Together

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• Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Guilt, Culture

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• Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Discovery, Years

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". Time Magazine (review of "The Age of Voltaire" by Will and Ariel Durant), October 8, 1965.

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• Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Distance, Taken

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.170, Routledge

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• It's coexistence or no existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Existence, Coexistence

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• If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Circles, Space

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Black and Blue Magic”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Light, Ducks, Groups

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Imagination, Humanity, Oppression

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Buddhist, Confucian

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• When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.

  Laozi

  Believe, Average, Practice

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• Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

  Meher Baba

  Eye, Soul, Cosmos

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• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

  Florence Nightingale

  Heaven, Inward, Kingdoms

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

  Meher Baba

  Pain, Ignorance, Men

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