Unity In Diversity Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Respect, Xenophobia, Believe

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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, Diversity

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• In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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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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• Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Simple, Diversity

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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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• Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

  Amartya Sen

  Knowledge, Fighting, Class

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• The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Diversity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

  Max Lerner

  Peace, Brother, Wish

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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, Diversity, Brotherhood

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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, Diversity, Tolerance

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

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• Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

  Langston Hughes

  Equality, Air, America

  Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”

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• Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

  Barbra Streisand

  Gay, Ideas, White

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• All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

  John Hume

  Race, Differences, Diversity

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• This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Diversity, Soul

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Ubuntu

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• In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Dark, Equality, Diversity

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• As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Men, Diversity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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

  Max Lerner

  Brother, Men, Diversity

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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, America, Political

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.47, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Peace, Hurt, Men

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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

  Diversity, Choices, Brotherhood

  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, Diversity, Joy

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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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