Quotes on Tolerance And Diversity

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

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

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.