Quotes About Diversity

#1. Assessment coordinators need to be knowledgeable about general higher education topics (e.g., student persistence, the cost of higher education, diversity, and student learning); they must also know how those play out at specific institutions.

Kimberly Yousey-Elsener

#2. I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

Mazie Hirono

#3. One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

Donnie Simpson

#4. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.

George Steiner

#5. Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

Jeremy Corbyn

#6. You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

Keely Barton

#8. I think diversity is very key to anybody's resume, and also for your mental well-being.

Lucy Liu

#9. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#10. Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Randi Pink

#11. There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Donna Brazile

#12. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#13. This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

Dave Barry

#14. To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people as a rule are much like one's self, and thankfully to admit that diversity is a glorious feature of life.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#15. If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

#16. If the humanities were science, the vocabularies of the world's languages would add up, not overlap.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#17. Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common ... Celebrate it every day.

Winston Churchill

#18. But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Adam Schiff

#19. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#20. I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

Barack Obama

#21. The arts world prides itself on its diversity, inclusivity, open-mindedness and constant efforts to reach out to all. Yet at the very moment when Britain decides its future, hardly anyone in the arts seems to understand, let alone agree with, the opinion of at least half the population.

Richard Morrison

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

#23. In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan
a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

Joanne Stepaniak

#24. The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

Greg Lukianoff

#25. The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Samuel Johnson

#26. We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Roger Wilkins

#27. And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

Ahdaf Soueif

#28. We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

Andrew Miller

#29. I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Isadora Duncan

#30. Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#31. No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

Cal Thomas

#32. It becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.

Dalai Lama

#33. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

E. O. Wilson

#34. I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Richard Dawkins

#35. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

Sonia Sotomayor

#36. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.

Keely Barton

#37. Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

#38. In a world of diversity, and cultural differences ... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.

Carla VanKoughnett

#39. A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#40. There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.

Tariq Ramadan

#41. Fuck I hate fucks
Who think they're so fucking great
They know everything about fucking,
When they're just fucking fucks fucking!
And no one changes the fucking world
When they keep fucking to another fuck's fuck.

Initially NO

#42. Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Margaret Atwood

#43. My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.

Edward Brooke

#44. In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.

Wes Fesler

#45. There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

Kelly J. Cogswell

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

Maya Angelou

#47. We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Esther Perel

#48. The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

Swami Abhedananda

#49. Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

Narendra Modi

#50. The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#51. Life is diverse. Living is to live with difference. Anyone telling you that difference should be stamped out is stamping out life. Those people insisting that there are black and white answers to the difficult questions are stamping out the diversity that is inherent in life.

Omar Saif Ghobash

#52. Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.

Seth Shostak

#53. This is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity ... You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#54. In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#55. I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

Geoffrey Rush

#56. Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

Diane Ackerman

#57. I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

Garret Dillahunt

#58. My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

#59. Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

David Livermore

#60. What we have to do ... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Hillary Clinton

#61. 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

#62. Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.

Stephanie Pace Marshall

#63. Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

Rene Descartes

#64. We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#65. Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.

Evelyn Glennie

#66. I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

Cory Doctorow

#67. Love is the key to diversity

Cherrye S. Vasquez

#68. The elders encourage diversity, once you jump through enough of their hoops," said Siham, "but woe to the hoop-averse." "How

Gabriel Squailia

#69. Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.

Amit Ray

#70. Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.

Alex Steffen

#71. We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

Stephen Jay Gould

#72. This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

Tariq Ramadan

#73. The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

Wendy Kopp

#74. So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.

Lila Bowen

#75. Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

Paul Isaacs

#76. Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Steve Kerr

#77. I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.

John Lloyd

#78. Diversity, not uniformity, is what works. Our problem is not that people are living a bad way but rather that they're all living the same way. The earth can accommodate many people living in a voraciously wasteful and pollutive way, it just can't accommodate all of us living that way.

Daniel Quinn

#79. Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

Ian Leslie

#80. We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

Ben Nelson

#81. Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Tyler Cowen

#82. We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

Kelly Moran

#83. We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

Michel De Montaigne

#84. All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Max Von Sydow

#85. You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.

Connie Chung

#86. Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

Zora Neale Hurston

#87. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own-indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all it's diversity, beauty, and wonder.

Jeanette Winter

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

Donzella Michele Malone

#89. The world is rational and creative. It's a wonderful mystery for our minds to discover and celebrate . God's everywhere and we are all different. That's the beauty of it-the sheer diversity. What a tapestry to enjoy.

Adam Williams

#90. The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the same laws in spite of the diversity of their forms.

Theodor Schwann

#91. Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

Jonathan Sacks

#92. Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#93. The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Jonathan Lethem

#94. My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

Tim Berners-Lee

#95. I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

Gary Snyder

#96. No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

Mary Somerville

#97. The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes.

Philip Freelon

#98. I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor.

Theo James

#99. I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

Sarah Zettel

#100. London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

Orlando Bloom