Our (Costa Rican) strength has rested on the belief that the planet will soon achieve an international order based on belonging to a single entity: the human species. - Oscar Arias Sanchez* This is a San Francisco type of project. [Human Unity] supporters should know that they are all welcome here.       - Willie J. Brown*, Former Mayor of San Francisco Self-preservation is only the second law of life. The first law is that you and the other are one. - Joseph Campbell  President Carter is grateful to you for offering him this [Human Unity Project] opportunity.   - Jimmy Carter's office My congratulations on your thoughtfully organized approach on this most important concern.  - Norman Cousins* We must create not only a massive but a basic change in our culture, in our entire approach to our relationships with other human beings.  - Walter Cronkite*            I always believe we are the same; we are all human beings . . . Wherever I meet people, I always have the  feeling that I am encountering another human being, just like myself..  - H. H. the Dalai Lama*             The whole planet is just us. Therefore, destruction of another area essentially is destruction of yourself.                                                - H. H. the Dalai Lama* No man is an island, entire of itself . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.  - John Donne                                                                                                                                  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.                               - Albert Einstein This human bond transcends all other divisions among us. It is at the heart of our survival as human beings.    - Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Ambassador to the United States If we focus on the human being, we are also moving to a unification.   - Fang Lizhi* The concept of my patriotism is nothing if not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.                               - Mahatma Gandhi I do wish you well in carrying forward the Human Unity Project. - Bill Gates Sr. The enlightened efforts of generations of democrats, the terrible experience of two world wars . . . and the evolution of civilization have finally brought humanity to the realization that human beings are more important than the state.   -Vaclav Havel  To know what man [human] is, is the only knowledge that is possible for us, for we are men ourselvesâ€--and that alone is essentialâ€--for man is the measure of all things. - Karl Jaspers  The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.  - Thomas Jefferson I have not found any worldwide project with greater potential for human betterment or with more favorable cost-benefit ratios. - Inamullah Khan* Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now, through our moral and spiritual development, we must make it a brotherhood.     - Martin Luther King, Jr. The two are the same, but after they are produced, they have different  names. - Lao Tzu Imagine . . . A Brotherhood Of Man, Imagine All The People, Sharing All The World . . . And The World Will Live As One.   - John Lennon I shall be glad to do what I can to help make your World Public Forum a success.                                - Seymour Martin Lipset* The Human Element. Nothing is more fundamental, nothing more elemental. - Andrew N. Liveris, CEO The Dow Chemical Company I have been pleading in Asia for the oneness and unity of humankind, and your letter to me signals the first  concrete step toward its realization.                                 - Mochtar Lubis* I believe your vision to be unique and your work important., . . .  - Bill Moyers The day after a nuclear attack, what would we wish we had done? Why aren't we doing it now? - Sam Nunn We, at NTI, do share your interest in achieving human unity in the world.  - Sam Nunn's Nuclear Threat Initiative office My sincerest congratulations for your efforts to promote and restore humanistic values and your profound engagement toward peace.                                                 - Javier Párez de Cuállar* We're [humans] all in this together.                                   - Lee Raymond, Chairman & CEO, Exxon-Mobil There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead,  choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings, to human beings: remember your humanity and forget the rest.                    - Bertrand Russell The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. - Albert Schweitzer Mr. Shultz appreciated your letter and the material on The Human Unity Project . . . Mr. Shultz wishes you well as you pursue your important work on The Human Unity Project..  - George Shultz' Hoover Institution office Universal brotherhood is the only solution for the well-being and progress of the people around the world. - Giani Zail Singh,* Former President of India Synthesis of the Spirit . . . can only be done through the meeting of human units, center to center, such as can only be realized in universal, mutual love.                        - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Know that all those involved [with Human Unity] will be very specially in my prayers.   - Mother Teresa Then we will perceive ourselves, each as an unlabeled human being; not an Indian, an American, a capitalist, or a communist--but as a human being, a miniature wholeness.  - Vimala Thakar*  (Ted Turner) wishes you his very best on the Human Unity Project. - Turner Enterprises, Inc. We say in Africa, "A person is a person through other persons." We are made for togetherness. We are made for fellowship. We are different precisely to know our need of one another.  - Desmond Tutu* © World Public Forum 2006