Quotes about Diversity

Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

No, dear, no, said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed of works written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000 volumes.

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.