The Other Side, written by Jacqueline Woodson (E. B. Lewis, illustrator) is about two little girls, one Black and one White, who decide to sit together on a fence that divides them from one another.
But in the world of this novel, whose characters yearn for connection only to be thwarted, it might refer to any of them — divided from one another, somehow always set at a distance.
It has become, for some people in some ways, a more brittle expression of national sentiment -- a blind statement of faith that does more to divide Americans from one another than to join them together.
But, Rael says, building more walls to divide communities from one another is not the answer.
John lived his life as a man of tolerance; he hated using religion to divide people from one another.
Ironically, what Farage has in common with the Muslim extremists who do exist is that each seeks to divide Britons from one another, by virtue of faith and identity.
Addressing a crowd of 10,000, Obama added: "He reminded us that at this defining moment we don't have the luxury of relying on the same political games, the same political tactics that have been used in so many elections to divide us from one another and make us afraid of one another".
That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.
The next generation understands that there is little value in the ways we divide ourselves from one another.
The social media ads "help demonstrate how Russia employed sophisticated measures to push disinformation and propaganda to millions of Americans online during the election, in order to sow discord and chaos, and divide us from one another," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) said in a statement.
As I look out at the American political landscape and beyond at countries around the world struggling to embrace diversity, I am saddened at the ways in which the fear of human difference is too often used to divide people from one another -- bigotry in the guise of group solidarity.
