"Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations."

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Source : "Twenty Year Vision for America". Speech at Manchester, New Hampshire, January 10, 2004.

Wesley Clark

#Differences Quotes #People Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
“I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.”
“For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.”
“If enough citizens believe their national securityâ€™s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.”
“Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.”
“I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.”
“People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.”
“The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.”

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