Bono Quotes

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

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

We need not think alike to love alike.

I love diversity.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.

One people out of many.

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.

May we know unity without conformity.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.

We're all different, and we have to accept and tolerate each other's characteristics.

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

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

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

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

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.