Diversity Quotes

"We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."

"The lesson of our history is that I, too, am America."

"There is no vaccine for racism."

"The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose."

"I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings."

"We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph."

"To be somebody and not just a great black poet "

"We want as many different things in as many different fields to be beautiful as possible"

"Art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society disregarding race or religion or wealth or color"

"Every individual is a unique manifestation."

"We should respect the diversity of civilizations and promote harmonious coexistence"

"Innovation is what you get when you put human talent into a diverse society."

"Most of us live in neighborhoods that are segregated by race and income. Our politics reflect those boundaries. People who are educated don’t talk to people who are not. People who are religious don’t talk to people who are not. If we’re spending most of our time with people who look like us, think like us, talk like us, love like us - and learn like us - then we should consider that a problem and do something about it."

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests"

"I try to give the audience a sense of the wide range of human experience"