Diversity Quotes

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 X

Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.

~ Yasuo Kuwahara

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

~ Germany Kent

Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.

~ Krista Tippett

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

~ Michael Pollan

The diversity of different colours is displayed in a rainbow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I like nature and I enjoy walking through the forest admiring its beauty and breathing not just the fresh air but, also the quietness and peacefulness of the place. There I feel serene. I feel I am accepted just the way I am whenever I arrive and for as long as I stay. Yes, there it doesn’t matter how I look, what country I come from, if I am from rich or poor family, what is my education, income, religion, sexual orientation and color of skin. It doesn’t even care if my hair looks messy and whether I wear the latest fashion cloths.

~ Nico J. Genes

When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?

~ C. N. Lester

Diversity is Nature’s stronghold, yet that very diversity has become a curse for an entire species, which is supposedly the most advanced one on its planet.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.

~ Christina Engela

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

~ John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all m

~ John F. Kennedy

Build bridges, not walls.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is those who are different that make the biggest difference in the world.

~ Shana Chartier

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.

~ Suzy Kassem

Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience

~ Renae A. Sauter

I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.

~ Ciore Taylor

American can mean anything you want it to mean. It can mean that you live in America. It can mean that you are privileged. Being American can also mean that you are diverse. In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

~ Ciore Taylor

My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.

~ Ciore Taylor

It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.

~ Ciore Taylor

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

~ Ciore Taylor

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

~ Ciore Taylor

Sometimes, the reason that people don’t get along is because they feel that their role is to be selfish or submissive—not understanding that American simply means understanding who we are so that we can help others do the same.

~ Ciore Taylor

Reality tries to disguise the fact that this society neglects to provide equal opportunity established by God and clarified in the Constitution. Whether equal opportunity is given to an individual or not, he/she still has the equal potential within him/herself to advance and obtain a greater level of success.

~ Ciore Taylor

The unlikely group that resulted from the union of five diverse characters in their late twenties operated with surprising harmony. This cohesiveness could be attributed to two factors: 1) everyone’s issues and embarrassing pasts were plainly disclosed prior to the gang’s formation and 2) the clan had been expressly conceived as a male support group.

~ Zack Love

Look what we've done so far. We're pretty good at the impossible.

~ Richelle Mead

Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that which divides us, but on the substance that binds us together. That commonality is the gospel of Jesus Christ. He commanded us to love one another—to set aside our differences and to care for “the least of these” among us. It is our unity, not our diversity, that deserves our allegiance.

~ James C. Dobson

The word of God is our glorious light for any dark situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

~ Emmanuel Mounier

She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.

~ Kiana Davenport

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.

~ Aberjhani

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Diversity cannot swim in a world flooding with clones.

~ Hiba Fatima Ahmad

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am the interpretation of the prophetI am the artist in the coffinI am the brave flag stained with bloodI am the wounds overcomeI am the dream refusing to sleepI am the bare-breasted voice of libertyI am the comic the insult and the laughI am the right the middle and the leftI am the poached eggs in the skyI am the Parisian streets at nightI am the dance that swings till dawnI am the grass on the greener lawnI am the respectful neighbour and the graceful manI am the encouraging smile and the helping handI am the straight back and the lifted chinI am the tender heart and the will to winI am the rainbow in rainI am the human who won’t die in vainI am Athena of Greek mythologyI am the religion that praises equalityI am the woman of stealth and affectionI am the man of value and compassionI am the wild horse ploughing throughI am the shoulder to lean ontoI am the Muslim the Jew and the ChristianI am the Dane the French and the PalestinianI am the straight the square and the roundI am the white the black and the brownI am the free speech and the free pressI am the freedom to expressI will die for my right to be all the above here mentionedAnd should threat encounter I’ll pull my pencil

~ Mie Hansson

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

~ Radclyffe Hall

Diversity creates dimension in the world.

~ Elizabeth Ann Lawless

Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.

~ James C. Dobson