Quotes About Diversity And Strength

#1. 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

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

Maya Angelou

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

Stephen R. Covey

#6. Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

Narendra Modi

#7. One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

Mitch Landrieu

#8. America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Ernest Istook

#9. We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Earl Warren

#10. America's strength lies not in its one-ness, but in its diversity of beliefs and efforts. And it will take all our strength in the coming years to combat global warming alarmism and to keep America from falling into the totalitarian green abyss.

Steven Milloy

#11. Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.

Max DePree

#12. I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.

Immortal Technique

#13. 'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

George Takei

#14. America draws tremendous strength from its diversity, which prompts the question, as Congress contemplates comprehensive immigration reform, why are some lawmakers aiming to curb diversity instead of promoting it?

Cedric Richmond

#15. Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.

Charles Hazlewood

#16. Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#17. It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.

John Carlos

#18. It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

Carson Kressley

#19. For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

Gerald R. Ford

#20. Feeling comes in aid
Of feeling, and diversity of strength
Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

William Wordsworth

#21. Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

Narendra Modi

#22. I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.

Martin Heinrich

#23. Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Yo-Yo Ma

#24. I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

Melissa Etheridge

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

Ani DiFranco

#26. I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.

John F. Kennedy

#27. In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

Jennifer Granholm

#28. Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Gary Locke

#29. We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Josefa Iloilo

#30. The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

George Takei

#31. THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.

Irina Bokova