Loved this quote ... so true.
As we see so much violence around the world, we have to keep in mind that only the ideologies are keeping us separate & driving divisions among us. At the end of the day, all of humanity existing in this world have similar dreams, happy, & painful moments, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, or culture.
We all have similar dreams & experience the same happy moments; getting an education, having a successful job, falling in love with someone... & getting married, having a family, watching children grow, & hence, these happy moments & dreams are easily sharable & relatable.
On the other hand, we all also experience the same painful & sad moments in life, & hence they are also sharable & relatable. For instance, crying over deaths of close ones, losing one's family, seeing others in painful struggle of life & death in the hospital or on the side of the road etc.
A Muslim has similar dreams & moments of anguish as a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Sikh or a Buddhist. A Shia Muslim has similar dreams as a Sunni, & a Catholic suffers the same pain as a Protestant. An Indian has similar dreams & painful moments as a Nigerian, an Australian as a South African, a Chinese as a German, a Canadian as an Argentinian, & an Iraqi as an American.
What we have to keep in mind that it is very easy to blame someone else for something horrible happening in general, or more specifically, to yourself.
For example, we should think why a looter became a looter or killer became a killer or a terrorist became a terrorist. After all, nobody is born a looter or killer or terrorist. Everyone's birth happens in the same way. Something happened in their environment which affected them so adversely that they are exacting revenge on the society by trying to harm their fellow human beings. A looter may have became a looter after unjustly denied of his/her rights & watching others get something unjustly. A terrorist may have become a terrorist after watching his/her family being killed for no reason, whatsoever, except they belong to a specific race or religion or ethnicity with whom our own ideologies clash (back to the point that ideologies divide us).
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