Diversity Quotes - Page 6

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

When you see your brother, you see God.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our minds.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.