Diversity Quotes - Page 3

• Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

  Thomas Berry

  Simple, Perfection, Magic

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Blessed, Achievement

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• Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

  Wes Fesler

  Ignorance, Enemy, Alliances

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• That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.

  Rob Bell

  Cities, Differences, Common Humanity

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• I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Thinking, Ubuntu

  "Start With a Flower". Interview with Sharon Salzberg, www.lionsroar.com. June 10, 2017.

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Simple, Achievement

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• Difference is of the essence of humanity.

  John Hume

  Essence, Differences, Humanity

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

  Jessica Lange

  Religious, Hell, Humans

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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

  David Soul

  Food, Ice Cream

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

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  Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Thinking, Individual Differences

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• A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Knowledge, Creative

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• Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Civilization

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• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Kindness, Life Lesson

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.165, 谷月社

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• I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

  Ani DiFranco

  Strength, Individual Differences, Comforting

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• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ch. 37 (2000)

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• Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Tasks, Biology, Preservation

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• Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

  Isabel Allende

  Circles, Brotherhood, Inclusion

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• Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Noble, Levels

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Santa Filomena. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)”

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

  Kenneth Clark

  Justice, Political, Prejudice

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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• For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Islamic, Years

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

  James Madison

  Government, Politics, Firsts

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Opportunity, People, Needs

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