Diversity Quotes

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I am large. I contain multitudes.

- Walt Whitman

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

- Pubilius Syrus

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

- John Stuart Mill

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks -- we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

- Parker J. Palmer

Community is that place where the person you least want to live with always lives.

And when that person moves away, someone else arises to take his or her place.

- Parker J. Palmer

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

- Louis D. Brandeis

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.

- Deborah Tannen

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.

- Audre Lorde

I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history. I am stronger because you are stronger. I am weaker if you are weak. So we are more alike than we are unlike. (source)

- Maya Angelou

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

- Karen Armstrong

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

- Lillian Hellman

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

- Audre Lorde

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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

- Leo Tolstoy

Equality is not similarity. Equal merit does not mean that one is suited to the same tasks.

- George Sand

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

- Charles Evan Hughes

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

- George H. W. Bush

Democracy is this -- to hold
That all who wander down the pike
In cart or car, on foot or bike,
Or male or female, young or old,
Are much alike -- are much alike.

- Alice Duer Miller

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

- Madame de Stael

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

- Julia Child

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.

- Anna Garlin Spencer