Diversity Quotes - Page 7

• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  M. Scott Peck

  Soulmate, Acceptance, Differences

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• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

  George Santayana

  Graduation, Wisdom, Mind

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Strength, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

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• Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Lying, Knowledge, Men

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 12 (1903)

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Reflection, Men, Echoes

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• ...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Practice, Humanity

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• All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Brotherhood, Together, Splits

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961”

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• Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

  Christine Lagarde

  Agreement, Needs, Certain

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Safety

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

  James T. Ellison

  Real, America, Great Diversity

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• America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Color, America, Woven

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

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• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Community, Parent, Needs

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• United we stand, divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Family, Fall, Words Of Wisdom

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Forgiving

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• I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

  Clifford Geertz

  Moving, Thinking

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• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  Fred Upton

  Views, Media, Common Sense

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• I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Boys, Evolution, Young

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• Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

  Cass Sunstein

  Law, Political, Catholic

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• Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

  Michael Scott

  Office, Principles, Racist

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Brotherhood, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Creativity, Europe, Florence

  "Like it or not, Europe is paying the transaction costs of diversity" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

  George Crumb

  Tasks, Resources, Procedures

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• When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

  Krist Novoselic

  Trying

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