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Quotes About Diversity

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
~ Angelina Jolie
It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.
~ Danny Glover
Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.
~ Lewis Black
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.
~ Deepak Chopra
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
~ Ryan Gosling
Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.
~ William Levada
I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.
~ David Brooks
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
~ Desmond Tutu
When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.
~ John H. Johnson
Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.
~ Turcois Ominek
The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
~ Hannah Simone
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
~ Dolores Huerta
Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
~ Whitney M. Young
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
~ Carlos Fuentes
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
~ Oscar Handlin
This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
~ Lynn Swann
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
~ Claudio Magris
Italy is only a geographical expression.
~ Klemens von Metternich
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.
~ Carter G. Woodson
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
~ Alfred Russel Wallace