Diversity Quotes - Page 9

• The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Community, Outsiders, Diverse

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.163, Vintage

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• For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Unity, Coercion

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.538, Best Books on

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• Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Unique, Creating, Issues

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• Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Justice, Virtue, Inclusiveness

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Mean, Acceptance, People

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Prejudice, Social Justice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Brotherhood, Culture

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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• The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

  Chinua Achebe

  Ideas, Problem, Stereotype

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• There is the sky, which is all men's together.

  Euripides

  Nature, Men, Sky

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Unity, Social Justice

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.15, Best Books on

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• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is 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

  War, Loss, Government

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• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Joy, Life Is, Absence

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.156

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• Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.407, Best Books on

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• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.

  David Hume

  Nature, Children, Science

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.452

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

  Thomas Fuller

  Smile, Class, Society

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• It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

  Louise Bogan

  Acceptance, Views, Intellectual

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• We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Long, Giving, Leaving

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.4

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• Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

  W. H. Auden

  Respect, Civilization, Unity

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• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Order, Knowing

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• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

  Pierre Bayle

  Tolerance, Brotherhood, Source

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• True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

  Pauli Murray

  Equality, Ties, Community

  Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

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• Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Educational, Mean, Views

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