Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

Anyone who goes to space tried to look at his own country first, but soon it appears that there is no boundary between the countries and the entire world is one family where our destinies are integrated.

I'd like to see the whole world.

The only real nation is humanity

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

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.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

… my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

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

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.