Cultural Diversity Quotes:

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Diversity, Community, Parent, Inspirational Diversity, Ethnic Diversity

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

- Tyler Cowen

topic: Real, Ideas, Diversity, Interchange, Cultural Diversity

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

topic: Attitude, Smell, Clothes, Cultural Diversity

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

- Julie Bishop

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Diversity, Celebrate, Accepting, Celebrating Diversity, Cultural Diversity

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

topic: Europe, Diversity, Live For Today, Cultural Diversity

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

topic: Beautiful, Dream, America, Inspirational Diversity, Inspiring Presidential

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

- Lily Allen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Diversity, London, Cultural Diversity

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

topic: Country, Diversity, Adoption, Cultural Diversity, Cultural Heritage

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Uneducated, Cultural Diversity, Unity In Diversity

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

- Mary Parker Follett

source: Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.39, Penn State Press

topic: Differences, Diversity, Unity, Uniformity, Cultural Differences

Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

- Robert Alan Aurthur

topic: Differences, Diversity, Peaceful, Intercultural, Cultural Differences

The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama asks geography bee question" by Byron Tau, www.politico.com. May 24, 2012.

topic: Our World, Bridges, People, Memorizing, Cultural Diversity

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

- Jonathan Sacks

topic: Spiritual, Expression, Civilization, Cultural Diversity, Artistic Expression

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

- Franz Boas

source: Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

topic: Intelligent, Equality, Race, Cultural Diversity, Different Cultures

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

- Deborah Meier

source: Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press

topic: Education, School, Diversity, Inspirational Education, Good Family

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

- Rene Dubos

topic: Diversity, Tolerance, Survival, Inspirational Diversity, Diversity Of Life

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Peace And Unity, Cultural Differences, Cultural Diversity, Unity In Diversity

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Country, Travel, Hippie, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure Time

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

- U Thant

source: "Portfolio for Peace", (p. 14), 1968.

topic: War, Diversity, Goal, Cultural Diversity, Unity In Diversity

Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

- Martin Wolf

topic: Animal, Space, Diversity, Cultural Change, Cultural Diversity

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

- Leonard Peltier

topic: Children, Real, Healing, Heal The World, Cultural Diversity

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Memorable, Carpe Diem, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

topic: Education, Weed, Nature, Conventionality, Cultural Diversity

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

- Ruth Benedict

topic: Success, Attitude, Race, Social Order, Cultural Diversity

The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.

- Jerry Mander

topic: Trying, Corporations, Culture, Indigenous Culture, Commodification

Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

- Frederic Martel

topic: Strong, Home, Europe, Cultural Diversity

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Differences, People, Diversity, Cultural Diversity

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

- Mazie Hirono

topic: Buddhist, Gay, Perfect, Asian American, Successful Women

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

- Phil Borges

topic: Motivation, Children, Inspiration, Cultural Diversity

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Unbiased, Common Experience, Secular Humanism, Non Believer, Cultural Diversity

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

- Mahnaz Afkhami

topic: Peace, Blessed, Diversity, Common Culture, Cultural Diversity

I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

- Alan Lightman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Race, Differences, Complementary, Cultural Diversity

Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

- Seamus Heaney

topic: Country, Mean, Home, Mutual Understanding, Enhancement

Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.

- Gwen Jackson

topic: Winning, Diversity, Community, Win Win Situation, Cultural Diversity

The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.

- Guillermo Gomez-Pena

source: Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”

topic: Diversity, Political, Upward Mobility, Cultural Diversity, Cultural Heritage

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

- Joyce Appleby

topic: Passion, Past, History, Dissolving, Collective Consciousness

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

- Miguel

source: Source: us.napster.com

topic: Thinking, Hands, Space, Cultural Diversity

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself.  The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

- Helena Norberg-Hodge

topic: Healing, Keys, Diversity, Sustaining, Sustaining Life

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

- Ruta Sepetys

topic: Cities, America, New Orleans, Cultural Diversity

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

topic: Artist, Thinking, Impact, Too Much Power, Countenance

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

topic: Race, Diversity, Together, Life Together, Cultural Diversity

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

- David Alan Grier

topic: America, Diversity, World, Cultural Diversity, Grappling

Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.

- Elinor Gadon

topic: Adventure, Land, Diversity, Multicultural, Paradigm Shift

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

- Murray Gell-Mann

topic: Diversity, Tasks, Preservation, Cultural Diversity

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

- Fred Wilson

source: "New York vs. Silicon Valley? No City Has A Lock On Innovation" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

topic: New York, Cities, People, Cultural Diversity

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Educational, Passion, Justice, Educational Institutions, Cultural Diversity

I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

- Isaac Asimov

source: Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

topic: New York, Diversity, Giving, Cultural Diversity, Cultural Heritage

The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

- Wade Davis

topic: Real, Moving, Our World, Indigenous People, Cultural Diversity

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

- Ana Castillo

topic: Giving, Diversity, Going Away, Hispanic, Dinner Table

... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

- Ruth Benedict

topic: Country, Fall, Ignorance, Fall Back, Cultural Diversity