"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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"Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing."
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"I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable."
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
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"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together."
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"It's coexistence or no existence."
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"We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us"."
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"Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision."
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"I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well."
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"I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity."
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"Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle."
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"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery."
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"Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his."
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"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."
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"I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know."
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"Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another."
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