Diversity Quotes

“As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.”

“For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community.”

“Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.”

“Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. The water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.”

“I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.”

“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.' The uncluttered stretches of the American West and the deserted miles of roads force a lone traveler to pay attention to them by leaving him isolated in them. This squander of land substitutes a sense of self with a sense of place by giving him days of himself until, tiring of his own small compass, he looks for relief to the bigness outside -- a grandness that demands attention not just for its scope, but for its age, its diversity, its continual change. The isolating immensity reveals what lies covered in places noisier, busier, more filled up. For me, what I saw revealed was this (only this): a man nearly desperate because his significance had come to lie within his own narrow ambit.”

“It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.”

“One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.”

“Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We've been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n' roll, metal, reggae - and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost.”

“It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?”

“Wall Street loves to extol the virtues of diversity, but we are asking Wall Street to put its money where its mouth is.”

“There is diversity of belief but it is the same God at work.”

“I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry.”

“Much noise has been about size diversity but not enough about skin tone diversity. It's time for this to change.”

“Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.”

“It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse cultures. We live in a world full of people with different backgrounds, interests, and values, and we must learn to accept that there will be clashes. As long as the differences do no harm, we should back off and accept them”

“The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.”

“Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.”

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”

“If you have a diversity of views at the table, you're much more likely to avoid pitfalls.”