Unity In Diversity Quotes - Page 3

• I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fall, Diversity

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• In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Helping

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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  There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Diversity, Understanding, Humanity

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.592, Bantam

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• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Diversity, Tree

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• Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

  Michael Novak

  Race, Civilization, Diversity

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• Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

  John Amos Comenius

  Views, Diversity, Humanity

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• I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

  Hermann Hesse

  Blood, Diversity, Unity

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

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• When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Views, Diversity, Understanding

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• There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Men, Names

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Greatness, Diversity

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Thinking, Ubuntu

  "Start With a Flower". Interview with Sharon Salzberg, www.lionsroar.com. June 10, 2017.

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• We are a gentle angry people
  We are a land of many colors
  We are gay and straight together
  We are a peaceful loving people
  And we are singing, singing for our lives.

  Holly Near

  Gay, Color, Land

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  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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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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• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• Society is unity in diversity.

  George H. Mead

  Diversity, Unity

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• The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

  Democritus

  Wise, Country, Home

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Patriotic, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Lying, Commitment

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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