Diversity Quotes

I've always wanted to be - I know people think this is an insult - but a jack of all trades.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...

If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa or Europe. They may be Mohammetans [Moslems] Jews or Christians or any Sect–or they may be Atheists.

I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

The organization of our press has truly been a success. Our law concerning the press is such that divergences of opinion between members of the government are no longer an occasion for public exhibitions, which are not the newspapers' business.

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

America is great precisely because it is an open society, and an open society recognizes that nobody is the ultimate arbiter — and that we may be wrong at times, even if we are powerful. We must be open to criticism and respect divergent and different views and interests.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

Neither Pagan nor Mahometan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

Justice is truth in action.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.