Diversity Quotes - Page 8

• The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  U Thant

  War, Safety, Goal

  "Portfolio for Peace", (p. 14), 1968.

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Country, Justice, Age

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Differences

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.24, Fulcrum Publishing

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• It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Nice, Would Be, Moments

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• Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

  Joe Klein

  Dna, Rainbow, Institutions

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• The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Lightning, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, America, Wicked

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• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Black And White, Yellow

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• But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

  Adam Schiff

  Race, Effort, Achieve

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• It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Important, Republic, Opinion

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• Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Husband, Wish, Chef

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• Live with the objective of being happy.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Unity

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

  David R. Brower

  Agriculture, Firsts, Made

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• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  Ulrich Beck

  Europe, Embodiment

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• The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Opportunity, Internet, Reader

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• Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Unions

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

  Alice Walker

  Cherish, Clear, Blooming Flower

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• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Hate, Cancer

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Judging, Needs, Unfair Treatment

  "Stereotyping and Prejudice". Book editing by Charles Stangor, Christian S. Crandall, July 24, 2013.

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• In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Distance, Islands, Brotherhood

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• Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Community, Challenges

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• Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Accomplishment, Tables, Sake

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• Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mother, Nature, Children

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Law, Justice, May

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