Kennedy, Robert F. -- “Day of Affirmation,” address, University of Capetown,...
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out...
View ArticleJohnson, Lyndon -- News conference, Johnson City, Texas (28 Nov 1964)
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) US President (1963-69)News conference, Johnson City, Texas (28 Nov 1964)
View ArticleAesop -- “The Four Oxen and the Lion”
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . United we stand, divided we fall.
View ArticleDickinson, John -- “A Song for American Freedom” (“The Liberty Song”), Boston...
Then join Hand in Hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. John Dickinson (1732-1808) American solicitor, politician, writer “A Song for American Freedom” (“The Liberty...
View ArticleSallust -- The War with Jugurtha [Bellum Iugurthinum], Part 10 [tr. Loeb (1921)]
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. [Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.] Sallust (c. 86-35 BC) Roman historian and...
View ArticleObama, Barack -- Keynote speech, Democratic National Convention (26 Jul 2004)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white...
View ArticleThoreau, Henry David -- Journal (22 Mar 1842)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . I have not succeeded if I have an antagonist who fails. It must be humanity’s success.
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Speech, Brooklyn, New York (1 Nov 1940)
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions — bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to...
View ArticleInge, William Ralph -- “Patriotism,” Outspoken Essays: First Series (1915)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . The history of the Jews also shows that oppression and persecution are far more efficacious in binding a nation together than community of...
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Mitchell, Ed -- (Attributed)
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon,...
View ArticleBaxter, Richard -- Motto
In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity. Richard Baxter (1615-1691) English Puritan clergyman and writerMotto See Rupertus Meldenius.
View ArticleMeldenius, Rupertus -- Paraenesis votiva pro Pace Ecclesiae ad Theologos...
On the necessary points, unity. On the questionable points, liberty. In everything, love. [In necessariis unites, in non necessariis libertas, in omnibus caritas.] Rupertus Meldenius (1582-1651) German...
View ArticleSa'adi -- Poem on Humanity
Human beings are like parts of a body, created from the same essence. When one part is hurt and in pain, the others cannot remain in peace and be quiet. If the misery of others leaves you indifferent...
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Huxley, Aldous -- Ends and Means, “Ethics” (1937)
Good is that which makes for unity; Evil is that which makes for separateness. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and criticEnds and Means, “Ethics” (1937)
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Camus, Albert -- “Bread and Freedom” (1957), Resistance, Rebellion, and Death...
Freedom is not a gift received from a State or a leader but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all. Albert Camus (1913-1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist,...
View ArticleEmerson, Ralph Waldo -- Journal (Jun-Aug 1840)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
View ArticleEmerson, Ralph Waldo -- Journal (13-14 Jul 1840)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . We are all boarders on one table — White man, black man, ox and eagle, bee, & worm.
View ArticleTawney, R. H. -- The Acquisitive Century, ch. 2 “Rights and Functions” (1920)
The conception of men as united to each other, and of all mankind as united to God, by mutual obligations arising from their relation to a common end, which vaguely conceived and imperfectly realized,...
View ArticleKing, Martin Luther -- “Rediscovering Lost Values,” sermon, Second Baptist...
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood. Martin Luther King,...
View ArticleCampbell, Joseph -- The Power of Myth, ch. 1 “Myth and the Modern World” (1988)
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) American mythological scholarThe...
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