Famous Sayings. . .

Hi all! If you read all of my post from the beginning, I hope it helped you understand more about diversity and how important diversity is in workplaces. Implementing diversity in your work group or your business is a little bit stressful. So for my 10th post, I'll share with you guys some famous quotes about diversity in order to give you some inspiration. Good luck! :)

"Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without."

-William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

"Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity."

-John Hume

"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

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.”

-Dave Barry

"Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness."

-Ola Joseph

"We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." 

- Jimmy Carter

"It is not the strongest of the species nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change that survives."  

- Charles Darwin

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."  

 - Mother Teresa

"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it." 

- Thomas Paine

"Diversity without unity makes about as much sense as dishing up flour, sugar, water, eggs, shortening, and baking powder on a plate and calling it a cake." 

- C. William Pollard