Diversity Quotes - Page 13

• Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

  Michael Novak

  Race, Civilization, Choices

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• We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Dog, Justice, President

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  Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Justice, Ignorant

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Lazy, Unemployed

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• It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

  Sonia Johnson

  Justice, Social Justice, Lifestyle

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

  Ann Northrop

  Justice, Normalcy, Different

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• We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Justice, Long

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

  Georg Cantor

  Discovery, Years, Doubt

  "Modern Mathematicians". Book by Harry Henderson, 1995.

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• What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

  Yolanda King

  Respect, Differences, Tolerance

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• We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Justice, Mind

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• We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Matter, Abundance, Planets

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Teamwork, Wall, Powerful

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• Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

  Clive Bell

  Believe, Convince Us, Justice

  Civilization (1928) ch. 5

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• We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Children, Racism, Justice

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• God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Blessed, Ideas, America

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Ideas, White

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.49, Penguin

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• Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

  George R. R. Martin

  Pathways, Castles, Different

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.97, Bantam

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• Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiration, Dark, Justice

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2010

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• Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

  Muhammad Ali

  Justice, Understanding, Tolerance

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• America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dream, Native American, Medicine

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

  Gordon Allport

  Justice, People, Psychology

  Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Justice, Culture, May

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• We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Kids, Years

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