“I was opposed to Mr. Lincoln's nomination, but now it becomes the duty of all Unionists to present a united front.”

Setting private opposition aside once the Union cause was at stake · Letter to Anna E. Dickinson, 1864

• Duty
• Politics
• Unity

“I do believe in the mystery of the symbol of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, through which all of humanity may be united in brotherly love.”

Stating the faith that preceded his reception into the Catholic Church · Letter, 16 August 1944

• Faith
• Religion
• Unity

“We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy—the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party.”

A call against division that undermines democratic strength · Public remarks / essays of the 1940s (widely attested)

• America
• Democracy
• Unity

“When has religion ever been one? Here each faith has a different desire. Unity belongs to the resurrection, when all eyes fix on one place.”

Original: کی دین یکی بوده است؟ اینجا هر دینی را خواهشی دیگر است. یکی شدن در قیامت ممکن است که همه چشم بر یک جا نهند. — Rumi refuses a political shortcut to oneness while keeping a last horizon of shared gaze. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 7 (Persian)

• Difference
• Religion
• Unity

“Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.”

An appeal for civic unity and service above partisanship · Public address / wartime remarks

• Citizenship
• Patriotism
• Unity

“Within us there is a mouse and there is a bird. The bird lifts the cage; the mouse drags it down.”

Original: در ما موش است و مرغ. مرغ قفس را بالا می‌برد و موش فرود می‌کشد. — The inner life is pictured as a single cage pulled by contrary creatures until both natures are given up. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 7 (Persian)

• Conflict
• Self
• Unity

“Do you think that this will not exist for ever and ever: two prayers struck together into one prayer, two loves into one love, two forces into one force.”

Original: Czyś ty nigdy nie marzyła, droga moja, o spiorunowaniu dwóch modlitw w jedną modlitwę, dwojga miłości w jedną miłość, dwóch sił w jedną siłę? Czy ty myślisz, że tego na wieki wieków nie będzie? — He imagines human and spiritual unity as a force created by joining separate lives and purposes. · Letter to his mother, 15 October 1845 (Polish)

• Hope
• Love
• Unity

“The human family is one.”

His governing idea of brotherhood across racial difference · Essay, What the Negro Wants and How to Get It, as commonly summarized of Hill's view

• Brotherhood
• Humanity
• Unity

“I know now that I am a part of the whole.”

Unity felt as belonging rather than theory · Remark recorded in correspondence and biography

• Existence
• Self
• Unity