Diversity Quotes - Page 9

The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

Toleration is the best religion.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the same laws in spite of the diversity of their forms.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another – because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently