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Quotes About Diversity

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.
~ Dean Kamen
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
~ Alice Walker
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
~ Jimmy Carter
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
~ Nelson Mandela
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
~ Faye Wattleton
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
~ Constance Baker Motley
The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society
~ Tony Abbott
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
~ Michael Novak
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
~ Victor Hugo
That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...
~ Bethann Hardison
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
~ Max Black
I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.
~ Bill Reid
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
~ Bobby Jindal
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
~ Casey Miller
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
~ Colin Ward
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
~ Molly Ringwald
It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
~ Chinua Achebe
The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
~ Stockwell Day
Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.
~ Mark Steyn
I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.
~ Rick Warren