Quotes about Diversity
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
— Donald Trump
Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
— Zendaya
Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.
— Miroslav Volf
One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since
— Mortimer Adler
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.
— Rowan Williams
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
— Roseanne Barr
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
— Thomas Jefferson
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
— Thomas Jefferson
We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
— Thomas Jefferson
God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body. I do not wash my feet to make them more beautiful than my face.
— Thomas Merton