Quotes About Diversity

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.