Quotes About Diversity

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

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

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Has every oyster a different taste?