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• In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Integrity, Heart

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, University of Georgia Press

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• It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

  Dalai Lama

  Enough, Rectify, Distortion

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Infinite, Glory, Creation

  "Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World". Book by Edythe Draper, 1992.

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• We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Stakes, Greater

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• Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Gay, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.

  Henri Nouwen

  Brother, Night, Light

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• Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Thinking, Challenges, Everyday

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• Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fundamentals, Unfolding, Dialogue

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• Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

  William Cowper

  Goodbye, Farewell, Half

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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• Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

  Steve Kerr

  Basketball, Sports, Country

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• Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Civilization, Unity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.34, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, America, Leader

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• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Color, Opposites

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?

  Murray Rothbard

  Unique, Men, Years

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1309, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Community

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Brotherhood, Environment, Linked

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Tolerance, Brotherhood

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• The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

  Pope John XXIII

  Country, Order, Brotherhood

  Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 150

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• Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Heart, People, Brotherhood

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• There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

  Hans Kung

  World Religions, Brotherhood, Earth

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• Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

  Max Lerner

  Brother, Men, Cooperation

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• It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Brotherhood, Looks

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• There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

  Ernst Mayr

  Numbers, Brotherhood, Population

  Ernst Mayr (1997). “Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays”, p.317, Harvard University Press

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• The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage

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• We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

  Barack Obama

  Sea, Yes We Can, People

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