Diversity Quotes

"There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."
Michel de Montaigne

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

"Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men."
Herbert Hoover

"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day."
Author Unknown

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank

"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color."
Maya Angelou

"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom."
Fredrich August von Hayek

"As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."
Eugene McCarthy

"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
Kofi Annan

"Civilizations should be measured by "the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained."
W.H. Auden

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
Maya Angelou

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
William Boetcker

"We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives."
Mahnaz Afkhami

"Infinite diversity in infinite combinations... symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty."
Commander Spock, Star Trek

"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."
John F. Kennedy

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
Lord Acton

"The real death of America will come when everyone is alike."
James T. Ellison

"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
Albert Einstein

Diversity The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.