Diversity Quotes · Page 35

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

— Max De Pree

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

— Ko Wen-je

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.

— JPEGMAFIA

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

— Mikhail Naimy

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

— John F. Kennedy

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

— M. Russell Ballard

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve…

— Phil Borges

When people talk about diversity and inclusion, sometimes there's a bit of an eye-rolling mentality or ticking boxes. But I feel like…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from…

— Hélder Câmara

Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural…

— Deeyah Khan

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although…

— Phyllis Bottome

“Peace does not mean the absence of war or the presence of abundance. It means the acceptance of tolerance, appreciation of diversity,…

— Debasish Mridha

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…

— Thomas Berry

It's not just about showbusiness - everywhere you go people are discriminated against. And if by having an organised voice against inequality…

— Lenny Henry

“Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The…

— Gayle Rubin

You can see why there are more people wanting to come from economically-distressed areas, and they can't all come to America. So…

— Rand Paul

I think tax breaks for diversity is a good thing. In film now, what happens is you get huge tax breaks if…

— Lenny Henry

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your…

— Paul Houston

I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored…

— Janet Jackson

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands…

— Shannon L. Alder

Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are…

— Kumar Sangakkara

When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about…

— Barack Obama

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

— Marva Collins

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

— Saadi

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

— Cynthia Ozick

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

— Joseph Goebbels

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government...

— Ben Bagdikian

“North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

— Frances Wright

I had always wanted to do a show of girls of color, a show that showcased diversity.

— BeBe Zahara Benet

If you have a diversity of views at the table, you're much more likely to avoid pitfalls.

— Annamie Paul

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

— Bernadette Devlin

In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.

— Stephanie Coontz

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

— Joy Bryant

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

— Barbara W. Winder