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Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

We celebrate our diversity, we lift people up, and we make America even greater.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.

We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

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.

We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.

We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.

We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements.