Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Daschle

Diversity in education is not a waste of time. It should be a national goal, and it's a goal we're going to keep fighting for.

Diversity has more to do than with what you write on job applications.

We want to do something to promote diversity on campus.

Thicket by thicket and wetland by wetland, we were losing the Greater Golden Horseshoe's remaining wilderness and diversity of life. The greenbelt is stopping the loss of natural features and the species they host.

Meher Baba

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Pope Francis

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

Rabindranath Tagore

If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Pierre Bayle

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Phillip E. Johnson

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Pope Benedict XVI

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

Thomas Sowell

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

Thomas Sowell

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Robert Kennedy

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

Roger Scruton

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

Richard M. Nixon

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Vandana Shiva

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Samuel Johnson

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

Wangari Maathai

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

Tony Shalhoub

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

Van Jones

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

U Thant

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

Sonia Sotomayor

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Tim Berners-Lee

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Thomas Friedman

That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

Herbie Hancock

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Jill Scott

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

Jean de La Fontaine

Diversity, that is my motto.

Jeb Bush

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

Jawaharlal Nehru

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Hillary Clinton

America already is great, but we are great because we are good, and we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity.