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....

represents the diversity of our society.

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as...

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty…she is...

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.

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.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times,...

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world...

Love is the key to diversity

No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you...

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

The uniformity of the earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled....

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

Sensitive people care when the world doesn’t because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art...

Well, Chicago’s a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many different kinds of people there. It breeds a certain self-confidence and a willingness to work...

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable ‘inequality’ – that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of...

We’ve got it all racial diversity, ethnic diversity, economic diversity, geographical diversity.

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheelMeeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicappedIs only a state of mind

It’s funny that being human means so many things, man made divisions counter our judgements towards being wary of the “other”, this is worrying because the thing that unites us is being human that is...

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear...

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...

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which...

Diversity is like a buffet, only with people. That’s why I like associating with individuals who are as close to macaroni and cheese as humanly possible.

Life is meant to be shared. We need each other.

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.

American diversity rarely applies to money and success.

There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for reasons of its image as well as fairness, notwithstanding the cranky alumni letters in The Daily Princetonian. … Hiring committees had...

The longer a nation’s history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

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].