Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

Freedom is found in pluralism.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

It takes all sorts of people to make the world.

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

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

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.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

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

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

We need not think alike to love alike.

A moral consideration of the utmost importance for us: We must respect individual differences, yet we must coordinate, work together, and act as one…. Mutual commitment to ideals -- yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions -- no.

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

May we know unity without conformity.

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

One of my core values is diversity of everything.

The whole family, we are all kind of different.

Accept others for their differences, what makes them different. That's what makes the world the world.

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.