Diversity quotations

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◆ If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

- Gene Roddenberry99

◆ The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

- Thomas Stephen Szasz99

◆ When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It's often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.

- T.H. White99

◆ I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

- Donzella Michele Malone99

◆ Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

- Carlos Fuentes99

◆ Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.

- Malcolm X99