We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength… The question is not when we came here, but why our families came here. And what we did after we arrived.
Different - Differences Quotes
What is required to live prosperously and peacefully together is not a fixed common doctrine or a fixed body of truths, but a common method or set of fixed rules under which we can live with our differences.
In my civilization… he who is different from me does not impoverish me, he enriches me… I shall fight against all those who strive to impose a particular way of life upon other ways of life, a particular people upon other peoples, a particular race upon other races, a particular system of thought upon other […]
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
A perpetual invitation to sit down in the face of differences and reason together, to consider the evidence, explore alternative proposals, assess the consequences, and let the decision rest – when matters of human concern are at stake – with the consent of those affected by the proposals.
When I am hassled about something. I always stop and ask myself what difference it will make in the evolution of the human species in the next ten million years, and that question always helps me get back my perspective.
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms […]
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
To know the difference is to be the difference and to be the difference is the difference.
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
