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Diversity Quotes - Page 3

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, May 15, 2006.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

A closed mind is a dying mind.

George Simon Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Jr., Edna Ferber, John P. Marquand (1984). “George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays”, Olympic Marketing Corporation