Quotes about Coexistence

In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Carl Sandburg poem come to life. There were inner-city kids jostling one another on a field trip, well-coiffed bankers working their flip phones, farmers in seed caps looking to widen the locks that allowed industrial barges to take their crops to market. You'd see Latina moms looking to fund a new day-care center and middle-aged biker crews, complete with muttonchops and leather jackets, trying to stop yet another legislative effort to make them wear helmets.

Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.

You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

I was still a bit appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting for the dollies. We and our vermin all blossomed together out of the same humid soil in the Great Rift Valley, and so far no one is really winning.