Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. — Maya Angelou
It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together. — George Lopez
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. — William Sloane Coffin
Diversity should extend beyond identity markers into the realm of ideas and perspectives. — Bret Weinstein
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral. — Adam Schiff
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. — Deborah Meier
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation. — Cesar Chavez
True diversity goes beyond mere representation, it requires a genuine embrace of different perspectives. — Bret Weinstein
We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. — Julie Bishop
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. — Jose Antonio Vargas
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. — W. H. Auden
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
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. — Yo-Yo Ma
Ethnic Diversity Quotes
Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group. — Rishi Sunak
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality. — Maxine Greene
Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world. — Murathan Mungan
People are born without choosing their father and that’s why we have so many different ethnicities in the world! — Romanian Proverbs
We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives. — Mahnaz Afkhami
They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they're all the same.
In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people. — Forest Whitaker
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. — Bashar al-Assad
I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate. — LeCrae
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles. — Derwin L. Gray
Cultural Diversity Quotes
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Kofi Annan
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully. — Haile Selassie
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. — Mary Parker Follett
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Diversity of experience leads to diversity of thought and diversity of action.
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
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
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it. — Jimmy Carter
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. — Bell Hooks
Diversity Quotes
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The greatest experience you'll ever had is diversity
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. — Antonio Gramsci
I am a Muslim and and a Hindu, and a Christian and a Jew, and so are, all of you.
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
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it. — David Attenborough
Human Diversity Quotes
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
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
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
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. — Gene Roddenberry
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord. — Abdu'l-Bahá
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few. — Carlos P. Romulo
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. — John Amos Comenius
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
We sincerely call upon all countries to hold dear humanity’s shared values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom; to promote mutual understanding and forge closer bonds with other peoples; and to respect the diversity of civilizations. — Xi Jinping
Celebrating Diversity Quotes
Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity. — Gad Saad
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples. — Aga Khan IV
We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice. — Cynthia McKinney
I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different. — Colin Quinn
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day. — Winston Churchill
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. — Barack Obama
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death. — Steven Erikson
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. — Valerie Jarrett
We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them. — Jared Polis
Inspirational Diversity Quotes
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do. — Meher Baba
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. — Robert Kennedy
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. — J. K. Rowling
Live simply so that others may simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us. — E. O. Wilson
It’s important to surround yourself with smart and talented people. Collaboration and diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes. — Jim Simons
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side — Audre Lorde
Together with MAC, I am excited to invite and empower more audiences as we both have individuality and diversity at our core. — Lisa Manoban
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. — Mother Teresa
Religious Diversity Quotes
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions. — Susanna Wesley
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. — Carter G. Woodson
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. — Tariq Ramadan
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. — Alexander Hamilton
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. — Robert Kennedy
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
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony
The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future of the land and the heterogeneous peoples of the state. — Nyla Ali Khan
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity. — Walter F. Mondale
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. — Theodore Roosevelt
Diverse Society Quotes
My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony. — Nelson Mandela
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
When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing. — Billy Graham
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife. — Earl Warren
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage. — Jose Celso Barbosa
To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it. — James A. Baldwin
Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. — Muhammad Ali
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. — Jinato Hu
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. — Vandana Shiva
Tolerance And Diversity Quotes
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
What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated. — Yolanda King
The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. — Thomas Berry
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves. — Tariq Ramadan
Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views. — Tulsi Gabbard
Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance. — Bassam Tibi
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence. — Albert Einstein
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees. — Meher Baba
Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda. — Abdallah II
The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance. — Greg Lukianoff
Race And Ethnicity Quotes
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. — Thomas Sowell
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination. — John Shelby Spong
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. — Allyson Schwartz
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances. — Christopher Dodd
There is an argument that COVID-19 is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia. — Eskinder Nega
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. — Monica Crowley
We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. — Marco Rubio
Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being? — Tony Bennett
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice. — Bell Hooks
As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a minority, should we not ask some pertinent questions. Is this racial diversity enriching, or will it be damaging to our social fabric? — David Duke
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. — John Oliver Killens
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us. — Richard E. Berendzen
It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity. — Arthur Kemp
I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning. — Mike Posner
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation. — Eric Liu
The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist. — Cory Booker
If I lived where I live right now, and my kids were in middle school, they would be the only white kids in the school. That is not a burden I wanted to place on them. My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse - half and half, or close. I wouldn't have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don't think that would have been fair to them. — Gene Weingarten
The Church is not segregated by region or cities. That's an antiquated view of the world. We are united with churches all over the world working toward common goals based on shared values. Mosaic is one of the most racially diverse churches on the planet. Our community and extended Church family is global and completely integrated. — Erwin McManus
Chicago has always been a very segregated city and Mt. Greenwood is an example of that. I can't say I've seen organized white-supremacist growth, but I have seen racial tensions increase. I think we've all seen that. In the Barack Obama presidency, especially, the far right has considered diversity a code word for white genocide. — Christian Picciolini
The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give too much thought to where I fit on the racial spectrum. But there were times when I would run up against someone who was interested in figuring out what race was. That would come as a surprise, and in some cases, like a slap in the face. — Wentworth Miller
People want to complain... my point especially when it comes to racial humor is... we have that diversity, so I don't look at it like we are making fun of people, I look at it as how awesome is it that we can talk about this stuff, that we do have this kind of diversity, that we do live in a country that shows an array, unlike any other in the world. — Carlos Mencia
The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately. — Megyn Kelly
I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds - racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive. — Sara Bareilles
The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry. — Cate Blanchett
I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion. — Tyson Beckford
By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. — Ron Paul
Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows. — David Limbaugh
So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future. — Cameron Crowe
Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling. — Mary Kissel
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity. — Walter E. Williams
Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth. — Timothy Keller
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them. — Zora Neale Hurston
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. — Hillary Clinton
When institutions conflate racial and gender diversity metrics with diversity of thought in their organizations, they implicitly reinforce the incorrect assumption that genetic characteristics predict something important about the way that a person thinks—the most fundamental assumption underlying racism itself. — Vivek Ramaswamy
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