Quotations

Cultural Views

	Speaker and Date	Quotation	Meaning
1.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	Caring about the little things instead the big ones will not lead to either.
2.	Martin Luther King, Jr	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	The action of every individual acts on the others.
3.	Sheik Zayed	A nation without a past is a nation without present and future.	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
4.	Amin Maalouf	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	People are the most important thing in the nation and without them the nation will not exist.
5.	Mohandas Gandhi	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	The basic human rights are more important than existing old customs if they started to hurt a person.
6.	ML King Jr.	God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men .He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
7.	Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	The actions which are issuances from us are related and they depend on each other.
8.	Frank Borman	When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
9.	Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	Don’t lead your love toward your country as the border of your country ends, but extend it to the other countries.
10.	DD. Eisenhower	The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
11.	Sheikh Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	Forgive your enemies and start to learn to work with them.
12.	Martin Luther King, Jr	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	Physical appearances are no more important than what a person would hold in his inside.