Famous and Inspirational Quotes on...

Acceptance, Diversity, Respect & Tolerance

"Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained."
— W.H. Auden, 20th-century English poet

"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is make it easier from people to accept themselves, to like themselves."
— Bonaro Overstreet

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
— Jesse Jackson, 20th-century American political activist, preacher

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
— Jonathan Swift, 17th/18th-century English satirist

"The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."
— Ann Landers, 20th-century American newspaper "advice" columnist

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
— William Hazlitt, early 18th-century English essayist and literary critic

"How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance--the one value that is indispensable in creating community."
— Barbara Jordan

"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."
— Chinese proverb

"People only see what they are prepared to see."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson