Quotes About Diversity

Please note, on this page I have included cover art from several books used in my “Celebrating Diversity” workshop. For further information, please refer to the workshop page and the “Diversity in Children’s Books” post tag.


We all live with the objective of being happy: our lives are all different and yet the same. – Anne Frank



For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable that those which divide us. – Donald Williams



Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. – Elbert Hubbard



(People) may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is build, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture. – Felix Adler



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



Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. – Anonymous



It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. – Maya Angelou



I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. – Mohandas K. Ghandi



Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness. – Ola Joseph



Diversity: the art of thinking independently together - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes



We should all know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. – Maya Angelou

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