Quotes about Diversity

The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them — which is no one's definition of tolerance.

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.