Mary Parker Follett Quotes

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

My country is nothing if not diverse.

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

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

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

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

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 enriched by our reciprocate differences.

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

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Assimilation was never the goal of the diverse ethnic groups in America. Inclusion without discomfort is now, and ever will be, the goal.

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

I love my neighborhood: There are Russian families, the artistic community, the gay community, and industry professionals - all ethnicities and ages are represented. That's the kind of neighborhood that I grew up in.

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

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

We are a diverse people, man.

India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world.

In Mumbai you have people of all cast and religion.

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.

India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?