Top 70 Diversity Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

— Emma Lazarus

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2. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

— Audre Lorde

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3. “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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5. “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

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7. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

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8. “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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9. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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10. “We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”

— Malcolm X

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11. “Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”

— Bell Hooks

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12. “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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13. “If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.”

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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14. “The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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15. “The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.”

— Wade Davis

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16. “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.”

— Verna Myers

17. “Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

18. “Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

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19. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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20. “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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21. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

— Sarah Dessen

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22. “The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.”

— Temple Grandin

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23. “Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”

— Telle Whitney

24. “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

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25. “You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.”

— R. J. Palacio

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26. “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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27. “Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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28. “We are all cosmopolitan. What we are born into is an accident of birth. Respect for difference, growth, and learning is who we are.”

— Peter F Gallagher

29. “Unity in diversity is India’s strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.”

— Narendra Modi

30. “Gender equality must become a lived reality.”

— Michelle Bachelet

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31. “Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.”

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

32. “I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.”

— Lady Gaga

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33. “What makes you different is what makes you beautiful.”

— Selena Gómez

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34. “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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35. “I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

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36. “There is only one race, the human race.”

— Robert Sobukwe

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37. “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

38. “God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.”

— Desmond Tutu

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39. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”

— Lupita Nyong'o

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40. “Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.”

— Ruby Bridges

41. “Together, we can make a change in the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It is our only hope. And without hope we are lost.”

— Michael Jackson

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42. “It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.”

— Ben Carson

43. “The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.”

— Frans Johansson

44. “We are more alike than unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

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45. “Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”

— Charles Darwin

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46. “We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”

— Tim Berners-Lee

47. “Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.”

— Mother Teresa

48. “Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all...”

— Muhammad Ali

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49. “Society is unity in diversity.”

— George H. Mead

50. “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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