Diversity Quotes - Page 11

• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Progress, Differentiation

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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• If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Motivation, Team, Inspiration

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• In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

  Jacques Monod

  Taken, Science, Ruining It

  Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

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• Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

  Michael Franti

  Helping Others, People, Way

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Being Alone, Thinking

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Scoffers, Skeptic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

  Rosa Parks

  Growing Up, Believe, People

  "The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here". Book by David Friend, 1991.

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• The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

  Thomas Sowell

  Important, Liberty, Libertarian

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 31, 1998.

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

  Aristotle

  Mankind, Character Education, Whole

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• It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

  Carson Kressley

  Ideas, Being Different, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other [distinct], the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Mind

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• If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, People, Atmosphere

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

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• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Rights, Parent

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered

  Stephen Cosgrove

  Respect, Book, Judging

  Stephen Cosgrove (1978). “Creole”

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• I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Testimony

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• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, One Day, Nature Beauty

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

  Democritus

  Wise, Country, Home

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Equality, People, Ridiculous

  Rudyard Kipling, “We And They”

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• There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

  Arthur Keith

  Race, Population, Different

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• Interestingly, many of the organizational characteristics that have been identified as conducive to effectively managing diversity and as conducive to fostering innovation and creativity in the workplace are also important for enabling employees to voice their values.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Creativity, Innovation, Important

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  There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Understanding, Humanity, Brotherhood

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.592, Bantam

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