The story of the American Civil War is essentially one of human beings––Northerners, Southerners, Blacks, Whites, men, women–– holding themselves accountable for the future of a nation.

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of...

I like “multi-“…multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and...

Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peak of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....

We are to allow one thing to be really and truly distinct from the other, to be its own genuine self. There is a logical and philosophical urge in thinking men to reduce all things...

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion....

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

This year’s nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music – not only across genres but across generations as well, … It’s inspiring to see so many albums, songs,...

We are amazing individuals.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is

I don’t know any Baptists who don’t want to see folks get saved… you start winning folks to the Lord and baptizing them… They’ll pretty well put up were [your methods].

developments,” corporate theme parks. But corporations aren’t interested in the messy ebb and flow of humanity. They want stability and predictable rates of return. And although racial discrimination is no longer a stated policy for...

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,...

It’s through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Today, despite different backgrounds, those of us who are willing to respect the traditions and history of this country can join together under one national banner as Australians. This is the kind of unity that...

It is very important to keep the diversity of development models and encourage different models to complement each other if we expect the world economy to move forward with full dynamism,

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

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.

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...

Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.

Rainbows introduce us to reflectionsof different beautiful possibilitiesso we never forget that pain and griefare not the final options in life.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

For a long time, we’ve talked in the game industry about gender diversity as the one problem on the radar, but the racial split is worse.

It’s certainly a good idea to have more geographic diversity and more ethnic diversity in the Democratic nominating process. We are committed to leaving Iowa first as the first caucus in the country and New...

We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens...

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are...

We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth....

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

We must stop pointing to the exceptions—these bright shining stars who transcend circumstance. We must look to how we can best support the least among us, not spend all our time blindly revering and trying...

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

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.

Instead of thinking those who don’t share your passions are not ‘real Christians,’ recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about...

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.

Y en este vasto continente humano, la infinita variedad de las razas no destruye la unidad misteriosa del conjunto, del mismo modo que la diversidad de las olas no rompe la majestuosa monotonía del mar.

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn’t be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict — the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow...

Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price—death...

Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed, either; the intent behind it was not rooted in a desire to help...

With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, … I always thought that the strength of radio was its diversity. It has always had so many voices. When I was a kid, the maximum amount...

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

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

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

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...

The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them...

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute...

Differences don’t necessarily mean conflict, diversity is beautiful!