Quotations by Famous People

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity Learning Objective 3

Quotations by Famous People:

 

	Speaker and Date	Quotation	Meaning
	Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	Person that values its excellence above its principles soon loses both.
	Martin Luther King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	Every man needs to choose between hard decisions.
	H.H.Sheik Zayed	"A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilization, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated future.”	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
	Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	The country culture depends on the people lives in it.
	Aldous Huxley	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	Traditions that respect their own have to be respected.
	ML King Jr.	God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
	Desmond Mpilo Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	No matter what happens we will be humans.
	Frank Borman	“When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?”	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
	Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	We love our country but we will not hate other countries.
	Dwight David Eisenhower 1961	The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
	H.H.Sheikh Zayed 1970	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	All countries go to war and after that became friends unlike the Arabs.
	Martin Luther King, Jr	I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	One day will came and the color skin or Religions will not be matter, what will matter is what can you do what you capable to do, that what people will be looking at.