Jay Ellis Quotes

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.

The world is such a small place.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.