Alveda King Quotes

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.

In sports, a team is surrounded with people with different backgrounds, with different races, and with different religions. In order to win, everybody comes together. I feels like that's what the U.S.A. represents. Everyone just has to come together in order to win.

The national team is the best example that integration can work.

When I say that Kansas all rolls as one unit, they all roll as one unit. Like, everyone. They never leave anybody out.

We need to focus on being one Baltimore.

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

Society is like a stew. If you don’t keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

E Pluribus Unum [One out of many]

One people out of many.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.

As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.

Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.

Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?