Diversity Quotes - Page 13

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.