Celebrating Diversity Quotes

We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity." Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern. ~ Richard Rodriguez

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different. ~ Colin Quinn

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ~ Valerie Jarrett

What we have to do ... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ~ Hillary Clinton

People judge you by your color, but God judges you by your deeds. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. ~ Clarence Day

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know. ~ Muhammad Ali

We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be black, or brown, and you to be white, and yet live together in a free and equal society. This is the only way that integration can bring dignity for both of us. ~ John Oliver Killens

The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy. ~ Conan O'Brien

We knew how to combine our strengths in order to overcome our weaknesses, and how to live off faith when nothing else was available. ~ Aberjhani

...it's the groups that can't accept diversity that hate and fear us the most. They should celebrate diversity, not just accept it. ~ A.B. Gayle

Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. t ~ John Green

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people. ~ Timothy Thomas Fortune

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. ~ Barack Obama

Energy can have two dimensions. One is motivated, going somewhere, a goal somewhere, this moment is only a means and the goal is going to be the dimension of activity, goal oriented--then everything is a means, somehow it has to be done and you have to reach the goal, then you will relax. But for this type of energy the goal never comes because this type of energy goes on changing every present moment into a means for something else, into the future. The goal always remains on the horizon. You go on running, but the distance remains the same.

No, there is another dimension of energy: that dimension is unmotivated celebration. The goal is here, now; the goal is not somewhere else. In fact, you are the goal. In fact there is no other fulfillment than that of this moment--consider the lilies. When you are the goal and when the goal is not in the future, when there is nothing to be achieved, rather you are just celebrating it, then you have already achieved it, it is there. This is relaxation, unmotivated energy. ~ Osho

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. ~ Pete Hegseth

Diversity" means living with people who hate you. ~ Rainbow Harvest

now they are celebrating my demise in taverns I no longer frequent. ~ Charles Bukowski

Did you know that only a tiny minority of viruses cause illness in humans? No one knows how many viruses there are, but their real role, when you get right down to it, is to aid in mutations, to create diversity among life forms. I've read a lot of books on the subject-when you don't need much sleep you have a lot of time to read-and I can tell you that if it weren't for viruses, mankind would never have evolved on this planet. Some viruses get right inside the DNA and change your genetic code, did you know that? And no one can say for sure that HIV, for example, won't one day prove to have been rewriting our genetic code in a way that's essential to our survival as a race. I'm a man who consciously commits murders and scares the hell out of people and makes them reconsider everything, so I'm definitely malignant, yet I think I play a necessary role in this world. ~ Ryu Murakami

First, adaptability and resilience require diversity, variation, and fluctuations. Allen (2001) describes the need for this redundancy (that is, having more options or pathways that are necessary to function like a machine) as the law of excess diversity. He is saying that unless there are more pathways or options (called degrees of freedom by mathematicians) than are required to operate efficiently, there is no resilience to changing circumstances. However much diversity seems requisite (Ashby, 1956) for a system to function at a given time, more than this will be required to cope with what is likely to happen in the future. ~ Jean G. Boulton

We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone. ~ Van Jones

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to. ~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe. ~ A.J. Darkholme

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

Somehow Christmas was making me feel jumpy inside. All this talk about being together and being happy and celebrating - it felt threatening. Like I shouldn't be part of it. Like I wasn't allowed. And Susan wanted me to be happy, which was scarier still. ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. ~ Aristotle.

Humans are ideas; and ideas are uniquely human. ~ A.E. Samaan

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. ~ Carl Rogers

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo ~ Billy Bragg

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents! ~ Joe Dean

I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans.
(on reaching the Champions League final) ~ Steven Gerrard

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating. ~ Sarah Kay

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree. ~ Martinus Beijerinck

Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich cultural diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special-in actual, remaining no power. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity ~ Nelson Mandela

The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses. ~ Donald R. Prothero

When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby. ~ Madeleine L'Engle