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Expand your circle
to optimize diversity.
Including others is more than superficial actions;
it requires deep understanding of our
interconnectedness.
Including others is about wholeness.
Including others is stepping out and up
to more meaningful relations
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Normal
is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoopi Goldberg
Contemporary African-American Actor
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Diversity is truly about seeing
everyone's uniqueness as a beautiful
gift to be nurtured and developed,
not changed to conform to
some arbitrary standard.
Mary-Frances Winters
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I am visible-
see this Indian face-
I both blind them with my beak
nose and am their blind spot.
But I exist, we exist.
They'd like to think I have
melted in the pot.
But I haven't. We haven't.
Gloria Anzaldua
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Don't be in a hurry
to condemn because he
doesn't do what yo do
or think as you think.
Malcolm X
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A human being is a part of the whole....
He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest...
this delusion is a kind of prison....
Our task must be to free from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrac
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A person is a person
because he recognizes others
as persons.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Contemporary South African Theologian and
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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If you cannot mold yourself entirely
as you would wish,
how can you expect other people
to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas a Kempis
14th-Century German Author
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We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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If we are to love our neighbors
as ourselves, we must accept
people as they are and
not demand that they
conform to our own image.
Henry Fehren
Contemporary Columnist for
U.S. Catholic Magazine
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If you resist reading
what you disagree with,
how will you ever acquire deeper
insights into what you believe?
the things most worth reading
are precisely those that
challenge our convictions.
Author Unknown
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You don't get harmony
when everybody sings
the same note.
Doug Floyd
Contemporary American Author
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Think for yourself and
let others enjoy the privilege
of doing so too.
Francois Marie Voltaire
18th-Century French Author and Philosopher
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If civilization is to survive,
we must cultivate the science
of human relationships--
the ability of all peoples,
of all kinds, to live together,
in the same world at peace.
Franklin D, Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
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Every Individual matters.
Every Individual has a role to play.
Every Individual makes a difference.
Jame Goodal
Contemporary British Ethologist
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We have become not a melting pot
but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes,
different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Learning about others is a
life-long journey of experiences.
It is not enough to say,
"I know one of them."
Learning about others shows us how
we are connected as a human race.
If enough of us makes such a commitment,
we will move towards an inclusive worl
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The unique personality
which is the real life in me,
I cannot gain unless
I search for the real life,
the spiritual quality, in others.
I am myself spiritually dead
unless I reach out to the
fine quality dormant in others.
Felix Adler
20th-Century American Ed
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The fundamental delusion
of humanity is
to suppose that I am here
and you are there.
Anonymous
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Acceptance of others, their looks,
their behaviors, their beliefs,
brings you an
inner peace and tranquility,
instead of anger and resentment.
Unknown
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