Diversity famous quotes

Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
-- Abdallah II

#Wall #Diversity #Growth

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
-- Abigail Adams

#Communication #Diversity #Political

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Diversity #People #Uniting

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
-- Adam Brody

#Long #Diversity

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
-- Adam Schiff

#Children #Giving #Diversity

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
-- Adam Schiff

#Race #Diversity #Effort

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#Diversity #Roles #Want

Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.
-- Aga Khan IV

#Government #Diversity #World

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity
-- Aga Khan IV

#Diversity #Democracy #World

Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples
-- Aga Khan IV

#Commitment #Years #Diversity

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
-- Alan Dean Foster

#Diversity #Triumph #Fields

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Diversity #United States #May

An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.
-- Albert Mohler

#Responsibility #Diversity #Institutions

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Diversity #Unity #Form

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#4th Of July #Diversity #Constitution

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Country #School #Diversity

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.
-- Amartya Sen

#Lying #Simple #Diversity

[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.
-- Amy Goodman

#Responsibility #Media #Diversity

There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.
-- Anandamayi Ma

#Reality #Diversity #Infinite

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
-- Angela Davis

#Hard Times #Justice #Diversity

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Strength #Differences #Diversity

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
-- Anna Sewell

#Perseverance #Compassion #Diversity

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

#Life #Mean #Diversity

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Country #America #Diversity

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
-- Antonio Gramsci

#Knowledge And Power #Diversity #Dying

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
-- Anwar Sadat

#Family #Justice #Diversity

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Diversity #Events

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
-- Arthur Ashe

#Sports #Race #Diversity

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Differences #Diversity #Fundamentals

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
-- Arthur Keith

#Race #Diversity #Population

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#Diversity #Benefits #World

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
-- Audre Lorde

#Inspiring #Being Yourself #Diversity

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
-- Audre Lorde

#Inspirational #Writing #Diversity

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.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Real #Ignorance #Diversity

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
-- Ban Ki-moon

#Differences #People #Diversity

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...
-- Barack Obama

#Struggle #Diversity #Together

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
-- Barack Obama

#Party #People #Diversity

We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.
-- Barack Obama

#Sea #Diversity #People

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality
-- Barack Obama

#Diversity #Islam #Ramadan

We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
-- Barack Obama

#Diversity #Together #Stakes

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
-- Barack Obama

#Technology #America #Diversity

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.
-- Baratunde Thurston

#Creating #People #Diversity

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
-- Barbara Deming

#Peace #Real #Diversity

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.
-- Barbara W. Winder

#Sisterhood #Diversity #Unity

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Diversity #Movement #Body

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Diversity #Fabric #Social

Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.
-- Bell Hooks

#White #Diversity #Choices

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government...
-- Ben Bagdikian

#Government #Media #Diversity

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.
-- Benjamin Bratt

#Diversity #Culture #Levels

In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.
-- Bernhard von Cotta

#Real #Law #Diversity

It's coexistence or no existence.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Diversity #Existence #Coexistence

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Home #Diversity #Would Be

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Diversity #Essentials #Investing

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
-- Betty Friedan

#Women #Diversity #Enemy

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today
-- Bill Buxton

#Aka #Diversity #Ink

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.
-- Bill Kurtis

#Diversity #Age #Television

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
-- Binyavanga Wainaina

#Country #Pride #Diversity

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
-- Bob Brown

#Positive #Diversity #Imagination

We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
-- Bob Rae

#Land #People #Diversity

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
-- Booker T. Washington

#Race #Diversity #Effort

First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance,
-- Brian Boitano

#Country #Athlete #Diversity

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
-- Cameron Crowe

#Diversity #Stories #Helping

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced
-- Carl Rogers

#Life #Opportunity #Diversity

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework
-- Carl Woese

#Diversity #Incredibles #Framework

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
-- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#Country #Diversity #Adoption

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
-- Carlos Fuentes

#Diversity #Like You

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
-- Carol P. Christ

#Europe #Diversity #Unity

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.
-- Carre Otis

#Taken #Diversity #Childhood

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
-- Carson Kressley

#Ideas #Diversity #Being Different

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
-- Carter G. Woodson

#Diversity #Doe #Needs

You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.
-- Cary Fowler

#Eye #Diversity #Important

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
-- Cary Fowler

#Mean #Games #Diversity

Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.
-- Cary Fowler

#Loss #Agriculture #Diversity

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
-- Cary Fowler

#People #Diversity #Mind

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.
-- Cary Fowler

#Diversity #Challenges #Climate

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Law #Diversity #Political

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Other Cultures #Diversity #Disrespect

What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.
-- Cesar Milstein

#Simple #Two #Diversity

The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.
-- Charlene Spretnak

#Spiritual #Simple #Diversity

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Country #Diversity #Political

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Charles Evans Hughes

#Freedom #Carpe Diem #Diversity

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.
-- Charlie Chaplin

#Diversity #Want #Helping

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.
-- Charlie Gonzalez

#Accomplishment #Diversity #Tables

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.
-- Charlie Peacock

#Hate #Blood #Diversity

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.
-- Chelsea Sexton

#Diversity #Culture #Classroom

Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
-- Cherrie Moraga

#Diversity #Skins #Done

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
-- Chinua Achebe

#Ideas #Diversity #Problem

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.
-- Chloe Sevigny

#New York #Diversity #Subway

I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.
-- Christine Lagarde

#Thinking #Diversity #Growth

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.
-- Christine Todd Whitman

#Country #Diversity #Immigration

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Family #Hunting #Diversity

the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.
-- Clara Fraser

#Self #Diversity #Lines

When you see your brother, you see God.
-- Clement of Alexandria

#Brother #Diversity

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity
-- Clifford Geertz

#Moving #Thinking #Diversity

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

#Long #People #Diversity

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity
-- Connie Chung

#Mean #Organization #Diversity

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
-- Corazon Aquino

#Peace #Justice #Diversity

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.
-- Cyrus the Great

#Army #Diversity #Unity

Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
-- Dalai Lama

#Country #Simple #Diversity

However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.
-- Dalai Lama

#Sick #Diversity #People