Diverse Cultures Quotes

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.

  Alexandra Byrne

  Fighting, People, Community

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• Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Bridges, Ideas

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• I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

  Idris Elba

  Black, Culture, Want

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Long, Lucky, Three

  "Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.

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• The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Israel, People, Events

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• My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.

  Chester Nez

  Country, Important, Stronger

  "Decoding history: A World War II Navajo Code Talker in his own words". CNN Interview, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.

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• China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Creativity, People, Culture

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• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  Sam Farr

  Acceptance, Government, People

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• As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Philosophy, Moving

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• 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

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