Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. — Mary Parker Follett
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
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. — Maya Angelou
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism. — Maajid Nawaz
Diversity in counsel, unity in command. — Cyrus the Great
United we stand, divided we fall; Union is strength. — Italian Proverbs
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully. — Haile Selassie
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. — Philipp Melanchthon
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. — Yo-Yo Ma
In union there is strength. — Aesop
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. — M Scott Peck
We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity. — Loren Cunningham
Unity In Diversity Image Quotes
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. — Langston Hughes
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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
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. — Deborah Meier
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
They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they're all the same.
We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. — Julie Bishop
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
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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
Tolerance And Diversity Quotes
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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
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
Diversity of experience leads to diversity of thought and diversity of action.
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos
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
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 greatest experience you'll ever had is diversity
The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. — Thomas Berry
Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. — Muhammad Ali
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
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
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
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond
I am a Muslim and and a Hindu, and a Christian and a Jew, and so are, all of you.
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
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport
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
In business you need two Jews for one Greek, two Greeks for one Syrian and two Syrians for one Armenian — Greek Proverbs
Human Diversity Quotes
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst
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
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
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. — Robert Alan Aurthur
Love And Unity Quotes
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies. — Sri Aurobindo
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all. — Baal Shem Tov
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. — Stevie Wonder
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Strength In Unity Quotes
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood. — Walter Reuther
When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies. — Thomas Paine
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength. — Jimmy Carter
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family. — Sayings
All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord.
Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths. — Ban Ki-moon
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
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
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
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
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
Diversity Of Life Quotes
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
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
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
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities. — Anthony Giddens
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. — Lucretia Mott
They know how to communicate, adapt, fight… they’re extremely versatile. And we’re talking about a huge community, with millions of different species and an exciting social life. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
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
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. — Buddha
Inspirational Diversity Quotes
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
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
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 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
I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism. — Diana L. Eck
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
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way. — Vandana Shiva
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
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world. — Democritus
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one. — Toni Morrison
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. — Muhammad Yunus
We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground. — Jim Wallis
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. — Oren Lyons
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. — Mark Twain
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. — Henri Poincare
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. — Yo-Yo Ma
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. — Thomas Berry
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
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace. — Jackie Chan
There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions. — Hans Kung
What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us. — Edward Kennedy
We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community. — Maya Angelou
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity. — Robert M. Hensel
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world. — Margaret Laurence
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust. — Michael Novak
Live with the objective of being happy. — Anne Frank
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. — Alice Walker
All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality. — John Hume
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