#diversity

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. ↗

— David Suzuki

#alive #allows #amount #biodiversity #destroy

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#denied #difference #diversity #i #in the past

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#american #american music #been #diversity #importance

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#answer #diversity #freedom #heritage #inspired

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#compose #disposition #diversity #extreme #far

Boutique multiculturalism accepts differences in dress, food, or worship. But the moment the sacred values of a particular ethnic or religious community become public, the toleration ends. (p. 63) ↗

— Alvin Dueck and Kevin Reimber

#diversity #multiculturalism #tolerance #food

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own. ↗

— Patti Digh

#inclusion #mindfulness #open-mindedness #welcome #life

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#diversity #divisiveness #food #politics #food

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe. ↗

— T.H. White

#eternity #imagination