Quotes about Diversity

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.