Disunity Quotes

“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

“When two persons are too close, they fall apart.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Rebels depend on willful gullibility.”
― Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

“Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Now you take dark Negroes like you, Mr. Griffin, and me," he went on. "We're old Uncle Toms to our people, no matter how much education and morals we've got. No, you have to be almost a mulatto, have your hair conked and all slicked out and look like a Valentino. Then the Negro will look up to you. You've got class. Isn't that a pitiful hero-type?"
"And the white man knows that," Mr. Davis said.
"Yes," the cafe owner continued. "He utilizes this knowledge to flatter some of us, tell us we're above our people, not like most Negroes. We're so stupid we fall for it and work against own own. Why, if we'd work just half as hard to boost our race as we do to please whites whose attentions flatter us, we'd really get somewhere.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.”
― Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

“The more polarized we become; the weaker humanity becomes.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.”
― Elton Trueblood, Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

“If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.”
― Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

“Religion, in most cases, has never been the actual reason of disunity in people. The underlying cause invariably has been politics.”
― Ibn Jeem

“Speaking truth to power about systemic injustice does not create disunity and division. In fact, it names the very disunity and division that we have failed to acknowledge and take accountability for.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“As to individuals, other methods were employed with them, in order so thoroughly to disunite every party, and even every family, that no concert, order, or effect, might appear in any future opposition. And in this manner an Administration without connection with the people, or with one another, was first put in possession of Government.”
― Edmund Burke, Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents / The Two Speeches on America