#diversity

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. ↗

— Gary Locke

#been #culture #diversity #ideas #religion

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#box #bring #diversity #does #dramatic

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#diversity #equality #humor #inspirational #politics

The difference between you and him and him and me isn’t different at all: we’re all different. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#diversity #diversity

I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea. ↗

— Patricia Geary

#diversity #language #philosophy #religion

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#growth #tolerance #growth

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me. ↗

— Martin Niemöller

#compassion #cowardice #diversity #human-rights #diversity

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#diversity #early #parents #people #strength

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#diversity #each #ethnic #fabric #large

If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus' example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look. ↗

— Greg Carey

#holiness #purity #religion #salvation #courage