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Quotes About Diversity

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
~ Sandra Cisneros
O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.
~ William Shakespeare
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
~ John F. Kennedy
More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?
~ Leslie Feinberg
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
~ Charles James Fox
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
~ Charlie Munger
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
~ Frederick Douglass
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
~ Richard Baxter
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
~ John Ruskin
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
~ Alex Haley
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
~ Aristotle
Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
~ Baha'u'llah
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.
~ Madonna Ciccone
What destroys one man preserves another.
~ Pierre Corneille
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
~ Octavio Paz
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
~ Richard Matheson
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
~ Robert E. Howard
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
~ James G. Frazer
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
~ James Russell Lowell