#diversity

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#beautiful #call #culturally #diversity #focused

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#balanced #biological #climate #cycles #diversity

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#biodiversity #change #climate #climate change #dependence

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again. ↗

— Eric Liu

#bring #celebrate #century #create #diversity

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#authorizing #demonstrations #diversity #important #itself

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#europe #obviously #union

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#cultural #cultural diversity #defend #diversity #europe

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all. ↗

— Evo Morales

#diversity #equal #equal rights #new #republic