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Quotes About Diversity

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
~ Oliver Tambo
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.
~ Edward Kennedy
I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
~ Michael K. Williams
I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.
~ Sonia Manzano
We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.
~ Bernie Sanders
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
~ Gaston Caperton
I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.
~ Geert Wilders
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
~ Charles Colson
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
~ David Adjaye
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.
~ Mandawuy Yunupingu
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
~ William O. Douglas
If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
~ Cyndi Lauper
I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
~ Henry Steele Commager
More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
~ Brian Lamb
Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.
~ Gary Yourofsky
I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
~ Hilary Swank
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.
~ Kim Campbell
Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.
~ Justin Trudeau
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
~ Vandana Shiva
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
~ Judith Light
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
~ Bella Abzug
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
~ Salman Rushdie