Quotes on Diversity

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

America is the world's engine but also its conscience. We are the petri dish of diversity and inclusiveness.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.