“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 View more diversity quotes
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“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
“No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and
work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk and Scholar
“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
“America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt—
many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.”
Rev. Jesse Jackson
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland
“We may have come over on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”
Whitney Young, Jr.
“Ecidujrep is prejudice spelled backwards—either way, it makes no sense.”
Unknown
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in
patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
Maya Angelou
“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse
races.”
Mark Twain
“Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don’t
know each other, and they don’t know each other because they are often separated from each
other.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness."
Samuel Langhorn Clemens, also known as Mark Twain
"The real death of America will come when everyone is alike."
James T. Ellison
"Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation."
Edward Said
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
Abigail Van Buren
"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. I have a dream today."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
"The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing."
Charles Caleb Colton
"The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Sigmund Freud
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too...."
Sigmund Freud
"This is not a nation but a teeming nation of nations."
Walt Whitman
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