Diversity Quotations

 “No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk and Scholar

“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”
John F. Kennedy

 “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland

“We may have come over on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”
Whitney Young, Jr.

“Ecidujrep is prejudice spelled backwards—either way, it makes no sense.”
Unknown

 “It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
Mark Twain

“Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they are often separated from each other.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
Abigail Van Buren

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing."
Charles Caleb Colton

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too...."
Sigmund Freud

Kim