Diversity Quotes
When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.
Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
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.
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.
Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.
You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.
The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.
Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.
Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
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