Diversity Quotes - Page 10

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

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.

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

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.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.

The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.