Elizabeth II Quotes

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

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

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

If God wanted, he could have created all mankind as one religion. He created many different ways so we will cooperate.

The ancients knew of no nations that could fuse many discordant elements into one society.

The budding of ecumenical fraternity has always been a most fragile growth.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.

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

Our nation is comprised of many different backgrounds and cultures, one of the many things that makes me immensely proud to be a South African.

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.

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.