There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is more that unites us than divides us.
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.
While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.