Diversity Quotes - Page 4

• The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

  Thomas Berry

  Kids, Perfection, Tolerance

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• Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, People, History

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Kids, Tolerance, Religion

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Color, Common Threads

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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• You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

  Faith Baldwin

  Brother, Heart, Kwanzaa

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• 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.

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Tree, Humanity

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• . . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

  Edward T. Hall

  Men, Littles, Talent

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• We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Lying, Communication, Ideas

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• All my life I've been looking for diversity

  Max von Sydow

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• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol P. Christ

  Europe, Unity, Delight

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Men, Differences

  "Literary Essays, vol. II". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

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• Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

  Tyler Cowen

  Real, Ideas, Style

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• Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Life, Differences

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• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lonely, Taken, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

  Earl Warren

  Gains, Bitter, Strife

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• I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

  Lucille Clifton

  Crazy, Mean, People

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• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Land, Feet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.142, A&C Black

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• Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

  Thomas Menino

  Cities, Giving, Edges

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• The peoples of the earth are one family.

  Ruth Benedict

  Brotherhood, Earth, Unity In Diversity

  Ruth Benedict, Gene Weltfish (1946). “Public Affairs Pamphlet”

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• 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

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• When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

  John F. Kennedy

  Poetry, Arrogance, Power Corrupts

  Remarks upon receiving an honorary degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963

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• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  Daniel Boone

  Impossible, Melancholy, Should

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books

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• 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, Tolerance

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Nature, Intellectual, Unity

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