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Diversity Quotes
We all should know that diversity makes
for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of
the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. -- Maya
Angelou
Be
the change you wish to see reflected in the world. --
Mahatma Gandhi
If we cannot end now our
differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
-- John F. Kennedy
We have become not a
melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different
beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. --
Jimmy Carter
If we are to achieve a
richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the
whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary
social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a
fitting place. -- Margaret Mead
When Jesus Christ asked
little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or
White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who
didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, "Let all children
come unto me." -- Marian Wright Edelman
The highest result of education is tolerance. --
Helen Keller
He who experiences
the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings... --
Buddha
The price of the
democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's
differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and
rewarding human experience. -- Jerome Nathanson
The real
death of America will come when everyone is alike. -- James T.
Ellison
Insight, I believe,
refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting
experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by
side, learning by letting them speak to one another. --
Mary Catherine Bateson
I do not want my
house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I
want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as
freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. --
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Ultimately,
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very
diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. --
Robert F. Kennedy
I
look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a
brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up
each morning. --
Daniel D. Mich
For those who have seen
the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more
who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The
things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those
which divide us. -- Donald Williams
What we have
to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our
differences without fracturing our communities. -- Hillary Rodham
Clinton
One day our
descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to
things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes
or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as
complex human beings. -- Franklin Thomas
We all live with the
objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the
same. -- Anne Frank
I take as my
guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity...in important
things, diversity...in all things, generosity. -- George Bush
Our flag is red,
white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow --red, yellow, brown,
black and white --and we're all precious in God's sight. --
Jesse Jackson
As long as the differences
and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise,
for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. --
Eugene McCarthy
It is the duty of
every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of
the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have
them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a
sacred duty. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
The wise embrace unity,
luminous without ostentation, distinguished without justifying,
recognized without boasting, persevering without complaining --
Lao Tzu
Non-cooperation is a
measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the
opposite views. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Human diversity
makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for
survival. -- Rene Dubos
Diversity is the one
true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. --
Anonymous
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