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Quotes About Diversity

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
~ Francis Picabia
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
~ Confucius
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
~ Lydia M. Child
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
~ Rudolf Steiner
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
~ Camille Flammarion
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
~ John Shelby Spong
My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.
~ Oscar Micheaux
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
~ Samuel Pepys
The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.
~ Ed McMahon
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
~ Alice Walker
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
~ Arthur Erickson
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
~ Victor Hugo
One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.
~ Mira Grant, Blackout
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~ Malcolm Boyd
I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.
~ Gary Snyder
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
~ Tertullian
There is never only ONE of anything in nature.
~ Carl Sagan
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
~ Arthur Guiterman
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
~ John Shelton Reed