The common ground of our humanity is
greater and more enduring than the
differences that divide us. It is so, and it must
be so, because we share the same fateful
human condition. We are creatures of blood
and bone, idealism and suffering. Though we
differ across cultures and faiths, and though
history has divided rich from poor, free from
unfree, powerful from powerless and race
from race, we are still all branches on the
same tree of humanity.
Nelson Mandela