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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Compassion, Important

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• We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Heaven, Chinese

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

  Naomi Klein

  Peace, Reality, Ideas

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  If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

  Eric Liu

  Together, Way, Tents

  "Sworn-Again Americans" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Views, Differences

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “40 Key Questions about Our Foreign Policy: Answered in Important Addresses and Statements Delivered Between 1941 and 1952”

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• I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Race, Age, Different

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• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Years, Today, Fantasy

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• Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

  David Eller

  Real, Tolerance, World

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• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Equality, Class, Soul

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Challenges, Needs, World

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• Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

  Alan Barth

  Art, Attitude, Spring

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• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Moving, People, Deeper

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.64, Nilgiri Press

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• What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hymns, Differences, Personality

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• Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

  Hu Jintao

  Keys, World, Today

  Hu Jintao's Speech to Federal Parliament, www.smh.com.au. October 24, 2003.

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• Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

  Pope Francis

  People, Source, Aspiration

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• I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Strength, Strong, Heart

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Government, Class, People

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• Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Democracy, Republic, Able

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• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Progress, Differentiation

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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