Unity In Diversity Quotes - Page 4

• Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

  Robert Kennedy

  Religious, Freedom, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

  Walter Lippmann

  Moving, Light, Diversity

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.77, Harvard University Press

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• We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Blow, Men, Diversity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.50, Jerome K. Jerome

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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

  Diversity, Tolerance, Brotherhood

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• It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

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• It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

  Alice Walker

  Women, Famous Inspirational, Flower

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• I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.

  Cathy Freeman

  Success, Leadership, Believe

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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, Diversity

  Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 150

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• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Kindness, Compassion

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.22, Sounds True

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• Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.

  Murathan Mungan

  Religious, Diversity, Brotherhood

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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, Diversity

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• Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

  Margaret Laurence

  Unique, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

  John Hume

  Respect, Lying, Differences

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

  Jim Wallis

  God, Moving, Higher Ground

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• People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

  Felix Adler

  People, Diversity, House

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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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• When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

  Ralph Nader

  Community, Brotherhood, Acting

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• There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

  Alfred Adler

  Love, Men, Years

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• Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

  Ronald Takaki

  Time, Memories, Equality

  "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009.

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Sympathy, Beautiful

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• The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

  Amartya Sen

  Lying, Simple, Diversity

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