Oliver Tambo Quotes

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

There must be no revenge … Our aim is to bring people of all races together. All citizens will by equal in the eyes of the law.

Irishmen and Irishwomen! treat the colored people as your equals, as brethren.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.

We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

There can be no democratic society where the interests of any minority … are not protected.

What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or they be black.

We are for allowing difference and respecting difference until difference doesn't make a difference any more.

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

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.