When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
Interpretation
When disagreement exists, finding common ground is essential for resolution.
John Hume's quote highlights the inevitability of division among people, yet emphasizes that the path to resolution lies in reaching an agreement. In times of conflict or disagreement, understanding and collaboration are crucial for harmony and progress.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing how to resolve conflict among members.
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.
The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand, it seeks to change the environmental conditions of men so the soul will have a chance after it is changed.
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