- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Us Quotes
What connects us, from global trade to family memory.
These quotes look at 'us' on very different scales, from once-hostile nations now trading with the world to a shared human truth that everyone carries some private struggle. For quotes about closeness between people, see Connection quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
- Nov 07, 2020
Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
- Nov 07, 2020
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Western Wall is long enough for us all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don't have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries... No one gives us orders.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020