Quotes About Pluralism

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.

Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences.

Tim Keller observes, "We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."3

Beauty is in all shapes and sizes

promote the teaching in mosques and madrassas that Muslims must coexist peacefully as equals with infidels on a permanent basis. And they could oppose blasphemy laws, such as the anti-Islamophobia resolutions they are promoting, which are a direct assault on the American Bill of Rights.

If novelists know anything it's that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting.

No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.

I think that's the beauty of living in America, right? We all get our own opinion, and no one opinion is absolute.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

There isn't and never has been one America, but rather several Americas.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

Whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or atheist, everybody has a place in this society.

Everybody is entitled to his own opinion.

We believe in equal respect for all faiths.

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

Esta manera de considerar la filosofía sostiene la fe de Berlin en el pluralismo.

Our own history has shown that we are stronger as a mosaic than a melting pot.

Necesitamos una economía mundial plural en la cual los Estados-nación conserven la suficiente autonomía para elaborar sus propios contratos sociales y desarrollar sus propias estrategias económicas.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.