George Takei Quotes

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

One reason I'm grateful to call Hawai'i home is that the people of these islands embrace diversity and celebrate the colorful fabric of race, ethnicity, and religion that make up our people, place, and culture.

I love diversity.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Society is unity in diversity.

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

People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.

If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk to national unity, intolerance involves a certainty that unity will be destroyed.

We should do more than tolerate our diversity. We should honor and celebrate it..

We are for allowing difference and respecting difference until difference doesn't make a difference any more.

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

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

Tolerance is common sense in a pluralistic society.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

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

We need not think alike to love alike.

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

I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic.

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

My country is nothing if not diverse.

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

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

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

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.