Cultural Views

 

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight D. Eisenhower	A Person that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	When someone cares more of their material wealth more than their morals and ideals they would likely lose their humanity and eventually lose their material wealth.
Martin Luther King, Jr	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	Every person’s actions matter to everyone.
Sheik Zayed	who does not have a past, has neither a present nor a future	All people should know and learn from their history.
Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	A nations people are the most important thing.
Amin Maalouf	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.	Sometimes old customs need to be replaced, especially if they hurt a person and their basic human rights.
Martin Luther 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.
Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	Our actions depend on one another.
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	From a distance, there is no such thing as nations and cultures, for we are all human beings and reside on the same planet.
Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	Love all people as you love your own country.
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.
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?	We must forgive our enemies and learn to work with them.
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.	What is most important about a person is what is on the inside, not their appearance.