Quotes about Diversity

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them — which is no one's definition of tolerance.

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.

From that moment on, no Christian can ever say one form of prayer is as good as another or one religion is as good as another.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God.