Cultural Diversity Quotes - Page 2

• Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

  Frederic Martel

  Strong, Home, Europe

  7 Copy quote

• It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Differences, Diversity, People

  5 Copy quote

• I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

  Mazie Hirono

  Buddhist, Gay, Government

  78 Copy quote

• 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 our cultural diversity.

  Phil Borges

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  46 Copy quote

• We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Real, Compassion

  7 Copy quote

• We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Culture, Common, Achieve

  9 Copy quote

• I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Differences, Race

  8 Copy quote

• Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

  41 Copy quote

• Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.

  Gwen Jackson

  Winning, Diversity, Community

  5 Copy quote

• The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.

  Guillermo Gomez-Pena

  Diversity, Political, Spain

  Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

  Joyce Appleby

  Passion, Past, Diversity

  9 Copy quote

• The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Hands, Space

  Source: us.napster.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.  The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Healing, Keys, Diversity

  8 Copy quote

• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

  New Orleans, Cities, America

  "Ruta Sepetys. Seeker Of Lost Stories". FAQ, rutasepetys.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Impact

  7 Copy quote

• Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Race, Diversity, Together

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

  David Alan Grier

  America, Diversity, World

  52 Copy quote

• Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.

  Elinor Gadon

  Adventure, Land, Diversity

  4 Copy quote

• Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Diversity, Tasks, Biology

  17 Copy quote

• Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

  Fred Wilson

  New York, Cities, People

  "New York vs. Silicon Valley? No City Has A Lock On Innovation" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

  Bell Hooks

  Educational, Passion, Justice

  99 Copy quote

• I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

  Isaac Asimov

  New York, Diversity, Giving

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

  Wade Davis

  Real, Moving, Our World

  12 Copy quote

• Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

  Ana Castillo

  Giving, Diversity, Going Away

  38 Copy quote

• ... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

  Ruth Benedict

  Country, Fall, Ignorance

  11 Copy quote