Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

The key to India's success is its diversity. Our diversity is the core that makes us so unique. In this land we find a mix of states and regions, religions, languages, cultures, lifestyles and much more. We are so different and yet so similar and united.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

New York accepts everybody. It doesn't matter your sex, color, religion. Everybody works together to create a better life.

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.

As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

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.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.