Awesome Diversity Ideas & Quotes

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We could learn a lot from crayons:
   some are sharp, some are pretty,
   some are dull, some have weird names,
   and all are different colors....but
   they all exist very nicely in the same box  

Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.  

Colin Powell

We all have to live here together… I want you to respect one another, see the best in each other, share each other's pain and joy.  

Charlotte Bronte

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.  

William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.  

R. Stockman

The test of courage comes when you are the minority; the test of tolerance comes when you are the majority.  

The Koran

I do not serve what you worship; nor do you serve what I worship. You have your own religion and I have mine.  

Unknown

The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.  

Immanuel Kant, Prussian geographer and philosopher

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.  

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American humorist, author and journalist

In his private heart no man much respects himself.  

Helen Keller, American social activist, public speaker and author

The highest result of education is tolerance.  

Bonaro Overstreet, American poet and psychologist

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.  

W.H. Auden, English poet

Civilizations should be measured by "the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.  

Jesse Jackson, American political activist and preacher

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.  

Elvis Presley, American celebrity entertainer

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.  

Jonathan Swift, English satirist

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.  

Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman), American newspaper “advice” columnist (1918-2002)

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.  

Unknown

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.  

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.  

Walter Lippmann

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.