Quotes about Diversity
One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.
— Billy Graham
No one saint could ever exhaustively express the infinite holiness of God; and therefore, God makes saints the way he makes plants and animals and stars: exuberantly, effervescently, and with a preference for wild diversity.
— Robert Barron
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
— Bob Marley
In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
— Booker T. Washington
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
— Booker T. Washington
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.
— Booker T. Washington
Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.
— Booker T. Washington
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
— Helen Keller
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
— Margaret Atwood
It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.
— Shonda Rhimes
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
— Muhammad Ali
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
— Sonia Sotomayor