82 Quotes About Integration

Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.

Guardi, Cécile… […] In quale altro posto si può trovare un simile insieme di persone diverse? Ricchi e poveri di tutte le razze, di tanti paesi, dalle storie diverse, che credono in Dio, Jehovah, Allah, o che non credono in niente, come il miscredente che le parla? E giocano insieme, imparano gomito a gomito e fraternizzano? C’è forse un altro posto in cui Églantine de Saint-André avrebbe la possibilità di incontrare Toussaint Baoulé e di amarlo?

And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.

I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.

[E]very emotion represents self-interest (self-love modified) orself-evidence. Owning up to all of our self-representation and object-representation is to recognize the full nature of our identity.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Integration happens when all parts of your being are in harmony.

North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial living.