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Quotes About Diversity

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
~ Booker T. Washington
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.
~ Josephine Baker
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
A man's country is the world.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
~ Samuel Richardson
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
~ Paul Keating
Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.
~ Scatman John
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.
~ Ava DuVernay
Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.
~ Dick Gregory
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
~ Germaine Greer
Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.
~ Loren Eiseley
Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.
~ Patti Smith
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
~ Ashley Montagu
Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
~ Carl Sandburg
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
~ Philippa Gregory
For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Each man in his way is a treasure.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
~ James McAvoy
Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.
~ June Jordan