Top 70 Diversity Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

52. “You can’t have unity without diversity.”

— Richard Twiss

53. “The American dream belongs to all of us.”

— Kamala Harris

54. “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

— Maya Angelou

55. “Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

56. “Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”

— Desmond Tutu

57. “Women helping each other – coaching, mentoring, and providing tips – is a great way for us to be our own force.”

— Indra Nooyi

58. “One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.”

— Carlos Santana

59. “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

— John F. Kennedy

60. “Stop labeling people just because they’re not like you.”

— Joyce Meyer

61. “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”

— Walt Whitman

62. “All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.”

— Rumi

63. “Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.”

— John F. Kennedy

64. “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”

— Ani DiFranco

65. “This is what God’s kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there’s always room for more.”

— Rachel Held Evans

66. “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

67. “Value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

— Michelle Obama

68. “Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds...”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

69. “My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.”

— Ruby Bridges

70. “If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.”

— Winston Churchill