Diversity Quotes

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

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.

United we stand, divided we fall.

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.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

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

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

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.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

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.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

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.

Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

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.

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.

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?

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

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.

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.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

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.