Vandana Shiva Quotes

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

Society is unity in diversity.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

My country is nothing if not diverse.

India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world.

In Mumbai you have people of all cast and religion.

The key to India's success is its diversity. Our diversity is the core that makes us so unique. In this land we find a mix of states and regions, religions, languages, cultures, lifestyles and much more. We are so different and yet so similar and united.

If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Ours is a vast country, many languages, many castes, creeds, religions.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.

When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.

India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.