Quotes about Diversity

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

inexhaustible...our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God.

The idea that our common humanity mattered more than our differences was stitched into my DNA.

We will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish. And so the world watches America—the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice—to see if our experiment in democracy can work. To see if we can do what no other nation has ever done. To see if we can actually live up to the meaning of our creed.

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.