1.
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
Haile Selassie
We should embrace uniqueness in culture and custom and live together harmoniously.
2.
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
Dick Gregory
Nurturing knowledge implies extracting wisdom. Imparting information suggests forcing in facts.
3.
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
Joseph Goebbels
A media system desires seeming diversity that masks genuine sameness.
4.
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
Angela Davis
I struggle to equate inclusivity with equity. Inclusiveness is a business tactic.
5.
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Authentic faith is a transformative power: it is an implacable foe of subjugation, advantage, and inequity.
6.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Frederick Douglass
'The measure of your success is determined not by the peak you have reached, but from the abyss you have escaped.'
7.
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
Antonio Gramsci
The antiquated is perishing and the novel cannot come into existence. In this interim there arises a large array of aberrant manifestations.
8.
Diversity in counsel, unity in command.
Cyrus the Great
Varied advice, unified authority.
9.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez
Conservation of one's own culture does not necessitate scorn or disparagement for other cultures.
10.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our capacity to attain harmony in variability will be the charm and the exam of our society.
11.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
'The majority of unawareness is conquerable unawareness. We lack knowledge because we don't desire to be informed.'
12.
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.
Chief Joseph
13.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
Collective strength yields success, solitary efforts yield failure.
14.
A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.
Max De Pree
A whale is as singular as a cactus. But don't inquire of a whale to endure Death Valley. We all have extraordinary talents. Where we utilize them and how decides if we really accomplish something.
15.
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
Mary Parker Follett
Cohesion, not homogeny, must be our ambition. We achieve cohesion only through variance. Variations must be amalgamated, not eradicated, not engulfed.
16.
Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
Edith Stein
17.
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.
Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa
Navigating the confines of multiple and ever-changing identities, while preserving one's own individuality and integrity, is akin to braving an unfamiliar realm.
18.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
Vandana Shiva
19.
The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
Starhawk
The Divine does not control the universe; She is the universe. Embodied within each of us, She can be experienced deeply by every person, in all her splendid variety.
20.
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
Broaden your horizons. Explore life to its fullest. Interact with all sorts of individuals. You'll take away something from each experience. Act on what your intuition tells you.
21.
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.
Pauli Murray
'Genuine fellowship is grounded in parity, interdependence, and interchange. It acknowledges the profundity of individual divergence while additionally recognizing the shared humane connections that unite us.'
22.
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
Simone de Beauvoir
When females behave authentically, they are accused of being inadequate. When women act with equality, they are faulted for acting like males.
23.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Harmony is not uniformity in sameness but unity in disparity, in the examination and reconciliation of disparities.
24.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison
25.
By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!
Zoroaster
26.
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
Chinua Achebe
27.
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
Paul Robeson
28.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
Isaac Asimov
29.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas Sowell
30.
It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.
Cesar Chavez
31.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
W. H. Auden
32.
Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
33.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer
35.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
36.
Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.
Jane Silber
37.
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Gordon Allport
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Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.
Narendra Modi
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I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new pattern for democracy. There is a challenge for us to set a new example for all. Let us not side step this task.
Albert Lutuli
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
Michel de Montaigne
42.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Mikhail Bakunin
43.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
44.
In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.
Saib Tabrizi
45.
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
Frantz Fanon
46.
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
47.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt
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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat
49.
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.
Dick Gregory
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.