Haile Selassie
Emperor
"We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully."
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Diversity
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Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy."
Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed."
Cyrus the Great
King
"Diversity in counsel, unity in command."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization."
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"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
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"United we stand, divided we fall."
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"True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together."
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"When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men."
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"As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us."
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."
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"We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?"
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"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
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"The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one."
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"The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so."
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"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."
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"Live simply so that others may simply live."
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"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
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"Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."
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"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings."
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"What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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