Quotes of Variance - somelinesforyou

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

- John F. Kennedy

“ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment and surprise. ”

- Christine Downing

“ What we have to do… is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. ”

- Josefa Iloilo

“ American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity. ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. ”

- Marion Wright Edelman

“ Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold - bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. ”

- Eugene McCarthy

“ What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Differences challenge assumptions. ”

- Anne Wilson Schaef

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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