Quotes about diversity

You never realize how short a month is until you have to pay alimony.

— John Barrymore

We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

— Charles Horton Cooley

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

— James T. Ellison

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

— Jesse Jackson

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

— Jesse Jackson

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

— Robert F. Kennedy

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

— James Madison

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is America. This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation.

— Edward Said

In a way, this diversity is very exciting, but one has at some point to ask: are these real beginnings, or so many false starts?

— Juliet Mitchell