Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for unity and collaboration among diverse communities, emphasizing shared goals over differences.
William J. Clinton's quote expresses a vision for an integrated global community where individuals embrace their differences to foster cooperation rather than conflict. It highlights the importance of shared benefits and responsibilities, suggesting that by focusing on common goals, humanity can create a more harmonious world.
In practice
In a speech at a cultural event emphasizing global understanding.
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
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Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.
Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.
I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
Because trans people are marked as artificial, unnatural, and illegitimate, our bodies and identities are often open to public dissection. Plainly, cisgender folks often take it as their duty to investigate our lives to see if we're real.
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
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