Quotes For Unity In Diversity
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* "Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the "disuniting of America" and warnings of the "clash of civilizations." As Langston Hughes sang, "Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe."
-- Ronald Takaki
How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past that includes all of us, making all of us feel connected to one another as "we the people," working and living in a nation, founded and "dedicated" (to use Lincoln's language) to the "proposition" that "all men are created equal."
-- Ronald TakakiThe nation was founded and “dedicated,” to use Lincoln’s language in the “Gettysburg Address,” to equality as a “self-evident truth.” But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a “proposition.” To make it a reality remained “the unfinished work” of Americans.
-- Ronald Takaki
"We have to sit down, have a meal together, pray together and then actually talk together. Then we realize that, yes, although we have some differences they are not impassable differences."
-- Pauline Tangiora
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
~ U Thant
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
-- Mark Twain
"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law of nature."
-- Voltaire
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
~Alice Walker* I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
~Alice Walker"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom."
~Alice Walker
We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground
-- Jim Wallis"In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth."
-- J. Donald Walters"There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind -- for wisdom."
-- J. Donald Walters
Our true nationality is mankind."
-- H.G. WellsFor those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
-- Donald Williams"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
-- Virginia Woolf
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
-- Muhammad YunusQuotes For Unity In Diversity
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DIVERSITY
HERO PIX
Mahnaz Afkhami | Isaac Asimov | Barbara Deming |
Ani DiFranco | Mohandas Gandhi | Mikhail Gorbachev |
Dorothy Height | John Hume | Jesse Jackson
Oren Lyons | Wilma Mankiller | Amartya Sen |
Vandana Shiva | Ronald Takaki | Alice WalkerEnd Racism Day - March 21
Diversity Day - May 21
ToleranceDay.com - November 16
