Global Citizenship Quotes

“NATIONALISM is another form of EXTREMISM”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only way to peace and justice on earth. To always do the right thing, be the right person, and stand with whoever is right always and forever.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Things are highly interdependent. The very concepts of “we” and “they” are becoming irrelevant. War is out of date because our neighbors are part of ourselves. We see this in economic, educational and environmental issues. Although we may have some ideological differences or other conflicts with our neighbor, economically and environmentally we share essentially the same country, and destroying our neighbor is destroying ourselves. It’s foolish.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience

“What is your hands to make a difference in the world?”
― Artika R. Tyner, The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice

“You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“The world is our family and our family is our responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Sai qual è il nostro problema, in quanto europei? Che vogliamo continuare a essere noi stessi senza smettere di essere il Tutto. Pretendiamo di globalizzare la nostra individualità. Ma il mondo ha sempre meno bisogno di individui, di razze, di nazioni, di lingue. Quello di cui ha bisogno è che tutti sappiamo l'inglese e, se possibile, che siamo moderatamente liberali. Che a Babele si parli inglese e avanti la Torre, dice il mondo.”
― José Carlos Somoza, The Art of Murder

“But on the ground in modern day, the gap-toothed border wall on the U.S. side was in the advanced stages of decay. It was an unsightly, rusted monstrosity, thoughtlessly imposing itself through the cacti masses who, until a few decades ago, had been peacefully congregating for millions of years along what was now an arbitrary line begging to be taken seriously.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“The well-worn track was as straight as Gadsden’s ruler when the nineteenth-century U.S. diplomat had negotiated yet another strong-armed acquisition of Mexican territory to give Arizona its geometrically pleasing southern boundary. Pleasing on paper, anyway.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause