Pope Francis Quotes

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

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

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

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

I come from a nation of peoples drawn from all around the world.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.

We all aren't in government, we all aren't CEOs, but we all are somebody.

Human beings are human beings, regardless of what makes us different.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

We need to realise that we're all different but equal at the same time.

Everybody is important. Everybody has something to give.