Tolerance And Diversity Quotes

• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

  John Hume

  Respect, Lying, Differences

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Courage, Bullying

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• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

  Barbara Jordan

  Equality, Keys, Creating

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Life, Attitude, Men

  "In Graduation Speech, Wellington High Principal Stands Alone" by Frank Cerabino, www.mypalmbeachpost.com. May 26, 2013.

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Diversity

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Kids, Differences, Diversity

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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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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• Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

  Rumi

  Christian, Unique, Rivers

  "Rumi and St. Francis: Healing Wisdom for Today" by Matthew Dowd, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2011.

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• The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

  Thomas Berry

  Kids, Diversity, Perfection

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Soulmate

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

  Pierre Bayle

  Diversity, Tolerance, Brotherhood

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• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

  Kofi Annan

  Acceptance, Race, Skin Color

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

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• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sad, Education, Weed

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

  Robert Kennedy

  Religious, Freedom, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Thinking, Ubuntu

  "Start With a Flower". Interview with Sharon Salzberg, www.lionsroar.com. June 10, 2017.

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