Diversity Quotes
Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
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.
Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.
I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.
Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.
I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate.
When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
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.
For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.
As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
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.
Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
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.
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.