Quotes
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
JFK
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers such as sex or race or class or national origin.
Margaret Mead
I have a dream that my four 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
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Jean Giraudoux
Diversity: The art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
I look confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one, with no thought to their separateness...
Martin Luther King Jr
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
Everyplace is my hometown and every person is my kin.
Anonymous
What we have to do...is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Hilary Clinton
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 colour.
Maya Angelou
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U Thant
Civilisation is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and, at the same time, decreases those labelled "you" or "them" until that category has no-one left in it.
Howard Winters
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
Tim Berners-Lee
The real death of Australia will come when everyone is alike.
James T. Ellison
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
Frederick Douglas
There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
Michael de Montaigne
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
Anonymous
Accomplishments have no colour.
Leontyne Price
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Donald Williams
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
Eugene McCarthy
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.
Felix Adler
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
Franklin Thomas
The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
Jerome Nathanson
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
John F. Kennedy
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
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
Rene Dubos
We should acknowledge differences, we should greet differences, until difference makes no difference anymore.
Dr. Adela A. Allen
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Aristotle
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
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.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. If [people] can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Nelson Mandela
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Franklin Roosevelt
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Limbs are cherished because they are parts of the body: why then are other people not cherished because they are parts of humanity?
Shantideva