Quotes About Diversity

Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.

We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

Unity is Obama's theme.

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.

India stands for unity and love, which we all should have for one another.

India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

If there is an all India party in the country, it is the Congress. This is a party of poor people which believes in unity in diversity and which does justice to all.

We should be working for protecting unity and integrity of the country... We should all strive to maintain a conducive atmosphere among the different communities.

We have left and right; religious and secular; Druse; ultra-Orthodox women. Unity is very important.

Weakening the federal structure essentially hampers our unity in diversity, India's biggest strength.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

From the start, I used a different kind of girl in Nars campaign images. My choice to use models of colour such as Alek Wek, Naomi Campbell and Karen Park Goude was absolutely a deliberate one. I felt that makeup was universal and should apply to everybody.

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.