Diversity Quotes - Page 12

• The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Trust, Perfect, Together

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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

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• People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of "diversity," it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendships with those who share similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  People, Silence, Favors

  "A Tyranny of True Believers" by Robert Samuelson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2008.

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• Diversity is a great force towards creativity.

  Michael Eisner

  Creativity, Being Different, Force

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  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Change, Moving On

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have.

  Connor Barwin

  Mom, Dad, Gay

  "Houston Texan Connor Barwin on marriage equality, his gay brother and NFL culture". Interview with Jim Buzinski, www.outsports.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, May, Needs

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 6

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• When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Carpe Diem, Being Different

  Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.

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• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, Hunting, Fidgeting

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• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Fabric, Social, Despite

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• Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Ambition, Light Life, Unity

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Learning

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

  James Gibbons

  Justice, Reform, Culture

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• My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiring, God, Freedom

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Migration, Like You

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• I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.

  Edward Kennedy

  America, Democracy, Treasure

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• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Emotional, Justice

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• CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Gay, Doors

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• I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Funny, Justice, Brain

  Quoted in Current Biography 1978 (1978)

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• I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

  Michelle Obama

  Hate, Real, Comfort

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.50, PublicAffairs

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• If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Christian, Jesus, Justice

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