Diversity Quotes - Page 39

• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Brotherhood, Environment, Linked

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Tolerance, Brotherhood

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• The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

  Pope John XXIII

  Country, Order, Brotherhood

  Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 150

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• Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Heart, People, Brotherhood

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• There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

  Hans Kung

  World Religions, Brotherhood, Earth

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• Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

  Max Lerner

  Brother, Men, Cooperation

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• It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Brotherhood, Looks

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• There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

  Ernst Mayr

  Numbers, Brotherhood, Population

  Ernst Mayr (1997). “Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays”, p.317, Harvard University Press

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• The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage

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• We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

  Barack Obama

  Sea, Yes We Can, People

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• Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Technology, Race

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Race, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.135, I.B.Tauris

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• There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Men, Names

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Children, Differences

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• If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

  Susan Sarandon

  Choices, Brotherhood, Boxes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

  Roger Scruton

  People, Joy, Brotherhood

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• The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

  Amartya Sen

  Lying, Simple, Tolerance

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• But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Civilization, Ideas

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• We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Brotherhood, Helping, Neighbor

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Brotherhood, Way

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• How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past that includes all of us, making all of us feel connected to one another as "we the people," working and living in a nation, founded and "dedicated" (to use Lincoln's language) to the "proposition" that "all men are created equal."

  Ronald Takaki

  Believe, Past, Men

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• The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

  Ronald Takaki

  Reality, Unfinished Work, Self

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• The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Oneness, Brotherhood, Together

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• Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Guilt, Culture

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• Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Discovery, Years

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". Time Magazine (review of "The Age of Voltaire" by Will and Ariel Durant), October 8, 1965.

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