"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
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"We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil."
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"We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe."
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"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
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"Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am."."
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"Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas."
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"If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man."
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"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."
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"The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects."
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"Live with the objective of being happy."
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"The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors."
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"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day."
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"The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man."
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"Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does."
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"In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity."
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"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity."
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"Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion."
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