Diversity Quotes - Page 16

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

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.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.