Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156
Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)
Context: In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America — it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Second inaugural address (January 20, 1997)
1990s
Context: Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
Richard Miles (historian) (1969) British historian and archaeologist
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
“The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"The People, Yes" (1936)
Context: The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold.
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
Source: Where Rainbows End
“I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion—the two cannot live together.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 9, “Pages in an Old Book” (p. 296).