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Diversity |
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| "Diversity: the art of thinking
independently together." |
| -- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1880-1954),
American publisher, businessman |
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| "We understand, as never before, that
each of us is fully worthy of the respect and dignity essential to
our common humanity. We recognize that we are the products of many
cultures, traditions and memories; that mutual respect allows us to
study and learn from other cultures; and that we gain strength by
combining the foreign with the familiar." |
| -- Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United
Nations |
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"If we
cannot now end our differences, at least we can help made the world
safe for diversity."
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| -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63), 35th US
President |
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| "You have not converted a man because you
have silenced him." |
| -- John Morley (1838-1923), British politician |
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| "There never were, in the world, two
opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most
universal quality is diversity." |
| -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), French
essayist |
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| "The experience of democracy is like the
experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety,
sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested
by adversity." |
| -- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (b.
1924), 39th US President |
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| "Fact of the matter is, there is no hip
world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which
has people in it who believe in a variety of different things.
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact
that they believe in something, use that something to support their
own existence." |
| -- Frank Zappa, American rock artist |
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| "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of
correct understanding." |
| -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), India
nationalist, spiritual leader |
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| "The white, the Hispanic, the black, the
Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the
businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young,
the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American
quilt." |
| -- Jesse Louis Jackson (b. 1941), American
reverend, civil rights leader, politician |
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| "It is in diversity that we discover the
sum total of what it means to be human. If we were all alike, we
would not be so rich as a species nor so prepared to face
change." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "I take as my guide the hope of a saint:
in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all
things, generosity." |
| -- George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924), 41st
US President |
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| "The truth, the hope of any time, must
always be sought in minorities." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American
writer, philosopher |
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| "Today, however, even amidst continuing
ethnic conflict around the world, there is a growing understanding
that human diversity is both the reality that makes dialogue
necessary, and the very basis for that dialogue." |
| -- Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United
Nations |
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