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...

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.

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....

The issue here revolves around the “right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different. Because of this, they discriminate against anyone who has any distinctive characteristic whether...

Maybe the word hasn’t been invented yet – that thing beyond diversity. We often define movements by what they’re against, but the final goal is greater than the powers it dismantles, deeper than any statistic....

We must strongly resist reductions in diversity, especially when it happens, either directly or indirectly, because of our own activities.

I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You’d merely done what I had, after all–split from two cells into four then eight then sixteen until...

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

Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems”. ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

The Libertarian Party convention wasn’t much better. You will never find a more stammering, awkward, inarticulate group of people than libertarians. I still remember the convention the previous year, entitled ‘Women of Liberty.’ All of...

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering...

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

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

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...

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching...

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

Hating skin color is contempt for God’s divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology—holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity...

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

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

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Finally, there are assuredly diversities of gifts pertaining to diverse breeds of men; and unless we are all reduced to the dull dead level of socialism, and perhaps even in that case, for the sake...

When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.

Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the Baptists or the Pentecostals, the Methodists or the Presbyterians have to say to...

Diversity is wisdom.

In spite of this geographical expansion and diversity in the nature of the virus, when it comes to the risk of transmission, we don’t have any hard evidence to indicate that the virus has become...

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

I have tried to bring a diverse message for a diverse audience but no matter how different we are as men and women and as ambassadors of our own culture–one thing is transparent and transcendental...

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don’t feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part...

I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. ‘It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say...

Nothing is the same.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

Finding your bliss in true equality and great quality can only benefit others

Now If diversity were inherently good, inherently valuable, inherently wonderful, why would we have to have the highly-paid profession know as ‘diversity consultant’ to manage it? Things that are inherently good, to enjoy them, or...

North and South has both met and made kind o’ friends in this big smoky place.

Thicket by thicket and wetland by wetland, we were losing the Greater Golden Horseshoe’s remaining wilderness and diversity of life. The greenbelt is stopping the loss of natural features and the species they host.

A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize into edges, but all Dissolutions of different things, caused by acid liquors, do...

Create inclusion – with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

Aside from wanting to write cracking good books that turn children into lifelong readers, I really want to create stories that enable kids to LOOK at the world around them. To see it for what...

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.