"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."

-- Earl Warren

#Diversity Quotes #Gains Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.”
“For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.”
“Suggesting evil is human doesnâ€™t mean we can always understand it.”

Source : "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". Interview with Helen Whitney, www.pbs.org. 2002.
“Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2011). “Of A Boy”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . . . . Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet”
“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”
“If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.”
“Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.”

Source : "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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