Malcolm X Quotes

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.

There’s no reason to be upset. This was a display of pluralism. We Mexicans need to get used to new times.

It is like a wide embrace, gathering together all those who have searched for words of hope. It accepts all great Prophets gone before, ’ it destroys no other creeds and leaves all doors open...

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

The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

I was raised in Hawaii in what I call a 'faith-inclusive' family. I never felt I had to choose loyalty to the New Testament over the Bhagavad Gita. It really wasn't until my late teens that I became aware of the ugly concept of sectarianism.

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

I think living in the U.S. it has given me an outsider's perspective on South Africa, and something that makes South Africans shine is our warm heartedness, and how we welcome and accept everyone, we are truly a nation of community, who embraces diversity.

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.

We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.