Quotes About Diversity

Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong;

Always remember you're unique Just like everyone else.

Accept all kinds of people, even those that use mild sauce.

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three per day, but that is not a good way to live.

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.

All sorts of men in one kind of world, you see. Dodge again! here comes Queequeg — all tattooing — looks like the signs of the Zodiac himself.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That's not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It's about We the people!

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the "superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

We should emphasize not Negro History but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

The Negro is the child of two cultures — Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Different isn't always better, but better is always different.

He did not belong to us, he belonged to the world.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

I see an America in which Martin Luther King's dream is our national dream.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

One man's quiet is another man's din.

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

History is herstory too.