Divisiveness Quotes

• A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.

  Tejomayananda

  Vision, Divine, Broads

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• The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Humanity, Stronger, Prejudice

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.159, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

  John C. Danforth

  Voice, Conflict, Advocating

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• America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Country, Determination

  Gerald R. Ford's address to the state conference of the Order of DeMolay in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 7, 1968.

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• The divisiveness could be really dangerous and it can create a lot of violence I think. So we have got to heal that by embracing that everybody wants the same thing and they are just going about it in different ways.

  Doreen Virtue

  Thinking, Different, Want

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• Divisiveness is not good for the people.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  People

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• Love should be our walk and our talk.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Rift, Should, Walks

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• Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Healing, Love Is

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• If Trump is elected president... I just don't know what America looks like four years after his election, in terms of the kind of bigotry that will be erupting, in terms of the kind of divisiveness that we will see, the kind of demagoguery that we will see.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Years, President

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

  Phil Donahue

  Dollars, Pits, Charity

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets Americans against one another, and instead we make some big goals, there's nothing in my opinion that America can't do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, America, Goal

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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

  Stevie Wonder

  America, People, United States

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Healing, Carpe Diem

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• There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Challenges, Sake

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• In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, Struggle, Heart

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.

  Donella Meadows

  Government, People, Support

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• If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

  Roland Merullo

  Religious, Kindness, Religion

  Roland Merullo (2008). “Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel”, p.153, Algonquin Books

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• I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts. That's something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump's done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Darkness, Magic

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Judgement, Criticism

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Greatness

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• The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Source

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.

  John I. Jenkins

  Leader, Healthy, Democracy

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Giving, Want

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.14, PublicAffairs

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• The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Philosophy, Years, Church

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• My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Judging

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