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June Jordan Poet, Activist
Diversity

"If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here."

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Barack Obama Politician
Diversity

"The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it."

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Zendaya Actress, Singer, Model
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"[Diversity] is the future. You can't stop it. It's going where it's going, so I choose to be with the future."

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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction."

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Michael Scott Business Executive
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"Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter."

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