Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

We develop sentiments that we are only going to work with people like us. But you don't build up a nation by working with people like you. You overcome a history of conflict by reaching out to people very much unlike you.

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

Let's work together to keep our country open, tolerant, respectful, and progressive.

You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

When you do learn these things, when you understand what inclusion is, then we can accomplish greater things together.

We need to focus on being one Baltimore.

I hope that I can find the common thread that connects us all and say: We can build a better Canada together.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

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!

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

We can be more inclusive.