Quotations by Famous People

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity Learning Objective 3

Quotations by Famous People

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quotation in your own words:

Cultural Views

	Speaker and Date	Quotation	Meaning
1.	Dwight Eisenhower, January 20, 1953	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	Its means that every nation offering privileges on principles will lose everything.
2.	Martin Luther King Jr., 16 April 1963	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	He’s describing life as a network which is connected all together which makes everyone involved in it by force and every person is a part of this network of mutuality.
3.	Sheik Zayed	"A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a 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.	1.      Mahatma Gandhi, 1940.	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	When the people love their nation they will do everything for the country to make it in the top.
5.	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.	A respectful tradition comes from the people. If each gender will respect the limits and admit the rights of each other, the result will be a respectful life.
6.	ML King Jr.	I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.	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.	All of us are looking  for the same love and peaceful life and it only can spread by sharing it with each other and that what makes us human.
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?	Spread your love of your country to the world and don’t make it stop. Whatever you face don’t stop it.
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, 1970	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?	Arabs should try to live in peace and to join with other countries with staying away from war.
12.	Martin Luther King, Jr, August 28, 1963	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.	Don’t starts judging people before you get to know them, not every book can be read by its title. He wishes that this day will come where people will stop prejudging each other.