#diversity

Love is the key to diversity ↗

— Cherrye S. Vasquez

#love #love

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#evolution #genetics #evolution

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#doubt

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong. ↗

— Robert James Brown

#environmental-justice #nature #social-justice #nature

It is never too late to give up your prejudices ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#open-mindedness #diversity

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#peace #tolerance #diversity

Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered ↗

— Stephen Cosgrove

#lesson #tolerance #diversity

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language. ↗

— Malcolm X

#humanity #language #snoring #tolerance #diversity

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#immigration #refugees #diversity

Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him. ↗

— A. Edward Newton

#buying-books #infinity #reading #soul #diversity