Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

If we can fathom stripping away sexual orientation, skin color, sex, we're all the exact same: We just want connection. We just want love.

If you want to know what being Canadian is, it's being part of the human race, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, which has been scared off, warded away, girded against.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.