Diversity proverbs

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◆ Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

- Rumi99

◆ It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

- Charles de Gaulle99

◆ Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ The terrible tyranny of the majority.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

- Ani DiFranco99

◆ Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

- Stephen R. Covey99

◆ It is never too late to give up your prejudices

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

- Kevin Smith99

◆ The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

- Felix Adler98

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

- Kofi Annan98

◆ Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief

- James Russell Lowell98