"The most universal quality is diversity."
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"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots."
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"If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings"
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"I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself."
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"Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law."
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"We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity."
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."
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"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."
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"I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth."
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"A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power."
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"A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got."
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"Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence."
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"Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings."
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"The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual."
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"Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation."
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"Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves."
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"Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it."
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"The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities."
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