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Inspirational Quotes About Common Ground

Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

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Index_card_top “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ”
 
Alan Alda (born 1936);
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
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Index_card_top “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
 
Maya Angelou (born 1928);
Poet, Dancer, Producer, Playwright, Director, Author
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Index_card_top “Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
 
Josephine Baker (1906-1975);
Performer


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Index_card_top “It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.”
 
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706);
Philosopher


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Index_card_top “...the day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in the councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union, between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
 
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906);
Women's Rights Activist, Writer


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Index_card_top “What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”
 
Hillary Clinton (born 1947);
Politician


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Index_card_top “What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community.”
 
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965);
Poet, Critic
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Index_card_top “In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “In republics, the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
 
James Madison (1751-1836);
4th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
 
Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273);
Persian Poet, Mystic
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Index_card_top “Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”
 
Tom Robbins (born 1936);
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist
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“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies. ”
 
Mark Twain (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.”
 
George Leonard (1923-2010);
American Writer


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“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
 
John Muir (1838-1914);
Naturalist, Author
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“It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned. ”
 
Helena Norberg-Hodge - Founder Of The International Society For Ecology And Culture


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