Quotes about Diversity
And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what!
— LM Montgomery
It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.
— LM Montgomery
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.
— Jane Goodall
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
— Charles Colson
That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
— Abraham Lincoln
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore
— Abraham Lincoln
Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.
— Alain de Botton