Quotes About Diversity

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Every one thing exists for the sake of all things and all for the sake of one; for the one is of course the all as well. Nature, despite her seeming diversity, is always a unity, a whole … a relationship to the rest of the system.

He had learned by experience that the motives and purposes by which men are influenced are far too various to be made to coalesce upon a single point, even on the most solid representations.

Isteže vieme, že na svete je dos? tvárí, ktoré príroda vytvorila bez dlhého uvažovania, nepoužila nijaké jemné nástroje, ako pilníky, dlátka, nebožiec, ale tesala iba nahrubo; zahnala sa sekerou a bol z toho nos, zahnala sa druhý, vznikli pery, ve?kým vrtákom vylúpla o?i, ni? neohob?ovala, a len vystr?ila na boží svet so slovami: Ži si!

Îl z?p?cise pur ?i simplu mul?imea aceea nespus de pestri??, de parc? diavolul f?râmase lumea buc??i ?i le adunase apoi la loc, f?r? niciun sens, f?r? niciun rost.

Ni para Dios ni para mí hay reyes ni vasallos, sino sólo hombres y mujeres. Tampoco hay Estados, ni monarquías. Todo eso lo habéis inventado vosotros, y pretendéis involucrarnos en vuestras peleas. Pero, para nosotros, no hay hugonotes ni católicos, ni hay cristianos ni turcos, sino hombres de buena o mala voluntad. Los de mala voluntad son los que a mí me tocan, y ya estoy harto.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?

God is not simply saving diverse individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather he is creating a people for his name, among whom God can dwell and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character in all its unity and diversity.

During the Second World War, China, briefly united under Chiang Kai-shek, was split into pieces controlled by the Kuomintang, the Japanese, the Communists, the Tibetans, and the Muslims.

Just because two men live together, it doesn't mean it's depravity.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"—

Pigeons are people too.

Be a cupcake in a world of muffins.

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike...

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.

The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

A cross-section of our society to-day represents the entire geological formation of human nature for 40,000 years. We need but look on the faces of the men about us as we go down the street. All history is here this minute.