Diversity Quotes - Page 30

• The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Justice, Alive, Useless

  :The French Revolution" by Mary Wollstonecraft, Bk. V, (Ch. 4), 1794.

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• Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

  Merle Woo

  White, Justice, Culture

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• Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

  Frances Wright

  Rights, Justice, Instruction

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.25

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• We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

  Andrew Young

  White, America, Justice

  Andrew Young (1996). “An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America”, Harpercollins

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• No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

  Andrew Young

  Islands, Should Have, Sea

  Andrew Young (1994). “A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• We must take the profit out of prejudice.

  Coleman Young

  Justice, Prejudice, Profit

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• The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.

  Whitney M. Young

  Attitude, Mistake, Thinking

  Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”

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• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

  Whitney M. Young

  Beautiful, Mother, Jobs

  Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”

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• We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Justice, Want, Slave

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• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Justice, People

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• We must be authors of the history of our age.

  Madeleine Albright

  Educational, Age

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• God is in the details.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  God, Educational, Learning

  Quoted in Architectural Forum, May 1958 See Flaubert 3; Modern Proverbs 24; Warburg 1

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• Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  Napoleon Hill

  Happiness, Success, Funny Inspirational

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.503, Penguin

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• The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity for all of us around the globe to celebrate the diversity of our societies and to honor the contributions that our fellow citizens of African descent make every day to the economic, social and political fabrics of our communities.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Years, Organization

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• Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

  E. O. Wilson

  Life, Nature, Garden

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• You must look into people, as well as at them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Relationship, Men, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet? If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Men, Sheep

  John Stuart Mill “Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises: by John Stuart Mill (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

  Will Durant

  Nature, Motivation, People

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• There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

  William Halsey

  Greatness, Men, Volunteer

  "Fictional character: Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr". "The Gallant Hours", 1960.

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• Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Light, Leaving

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• 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

  Believe, Understanding, Depth

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Men, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Giving, Working Together

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• Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

  Phil Collins

  Different, Deep Inside

  Song: You'll Be In My Heart

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