“We must pass through the barriers of language and race, of geography and religion, of custom and tradition and we must build on a common foundation.”

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet

“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”

Albert Pike (1809–1891) Confederate States Army general and Freemason

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“The theory of the Aryan race is just an assumption… based on a philological proposition… that a greater number of languages of Europe and some languages of Asia must be referred to a common ancestral speech… (From this) are drawn two inferences: (1) unity of race, and (2) that race being the Aryan race. The argument is that if the languages are descended from a common ancestral speech, then there must have existed a race whose mother tongue it was… From this inference is drawn another inference, which is that of a common original habitat. It is argued that there could be no community of language unless people had a common habitat, permitting close communion.”

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…

“Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”

Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist

“We must examine the traditional demands of our race and social structure in light of the resources we have at hand and strike a workable balance.”

Teimumu Kepa (1945) Fijian politician

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

“We must remove, not erect, barriers to degree level education.”

Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland

“If we are to have a foundation upon which to continue to build a more perfect union, we must return unequivocally, as Lincoln returned, to the source of our greatness in the American Founding.”

Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor