Top 610 Diversity Quotes

As a person who grew up in Los Angeles – that’s a very diverse place – I’ve always felt like that diversity is a blessing. It’s not a problem to be solved: it’s a gift to be thankful for.
Kamasi Washington
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we’ve really gone very far in developing this country.
Najib Razak
It’s hard because you can’t legislate creative diversity. I think it’s more that the gaming community’s more diverse, and they’re going to ask for more diverse experiences. They’re going to demand them.
Aisha Tyler
I’m from a really nice town. Full of nature, mountains, clean air, rock climbing. But I’d prefer New York City. I love the diversity here, the religions, the food – especially the food.
Millicent Simmonds
London’s greatest strength is our diversity, and it’s wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital’s different traditions, determined to stand up to division.
Sadiq Khan
The FCC was founded in 1934, and their first major action was in 1941 when they broke up NBC. NBC used to be NBC Red and NBC Blue, and they broke them up for the same exact reason: that there wasn’t going to be a diversity of voices and because they were vertically integrated.
Tony Cardenas
I have an unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity.
Julie Sweet
Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.
Mary Dillon
We have to root out the weeds of hate and ensure it doesn’t choke away the healthy flowers of diversity in our borough, city, and state.
Eric Adams
I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it’s actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.
Robert Crais
In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on ‘multiculturalism’, including the diversity of languages.
Eduardo Bhatia
Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there’s so much diversity on campus.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.
Mark Pagel
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U Thant
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
Vernon Jordan
Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.
Cesar Milstein
Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.
Ofra Strauss
One of the management imperatives in the ’90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.
Frances Hesselbein
People are making a lot more noise about representation

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.
Jodie Turner-Smith
I can’t make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there’s such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.
Asghar Farhadi
I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.
Michael Patrick King
To speak of the Muslim world is not to endorse a totalitarian project, nor to bolster an Islamist narrative, nor to suggest that variety, plurality, and diversity are lacking in what Muslims think, believe, speak, and do as Muslims.
Mehdi Hasan
When your focus is franchises and brands, that limits the kinds of stories you can tell. That kind of thing can be good for the bottom line but they’re not particularly good for showcasing the diversity of human experience.
Travis Knight
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
Noam Chomsky
All my life I’ve been looking for diversity.
Max von Sydow
I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other aspiring female artists.
Madison Beer
Women are not diversity. We’re half the population.
Megan Ganz
I believe that if we want to change our industry we must look beyond what we see on our TV screens and fix the bigger problems lying beneath. When it comes to racial diversity that means looking at who commissions and makes the programmes.
Lenny Henry
If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, ‘Oh, God, we’ll never be able to tackle this!’ But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Even though I was based in New York, I would travel all over the world, meeting so many different types of people, and that’s really when my understanding of diversity deepened.
HoYeon Jung
I’m big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don’t want it to ever be typecasted.
Travis Scott
There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word ‘diversity’ a lot, but when I say ‘of colour,’ I mean Asian, black – I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
There is so much diversity in India in terms of religion, schools of thought, everything.
Pratik Gandhi
I think it’s not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it’s Congress’ place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what’s going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?
Tony Cardenas
The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse – not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors.
Peter Maurer
For as long as the power of America’s diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
Ron Kind
We want the diversity of the world that is around us represented both in front of and behind the camera, and on our screens as a result.
Mira Nair
Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.
Charles Hazlewood
I truly believe that ESPN has been in the forefront in terms of the diversity in front of the camera and improving the balance between men and women.
Molly Qerim
I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft.
Kevin Johnson
The desire from those abroad to join our ranks is overwhelming. Tens of millions have applied for the limited amount of diversity visas available every year, illustrating the demand and need to maintain this vital path to American citizenship.
Cedric Richmond
People who are for diversity of thought, actually, are okay with hearing some opinions that they don’t like. I quite literally see none of that on the Left.
Dave Rubin
From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
M. Stanton Evans
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
Adam Rickitt
The creation of useless offices and mandatory trainings to promote ‘wokeness’ and diversity inclusion among our troops distracts from the national security mission of the armed services.
Lauren Boebert
We agree that there is a problem in the sketch and improv community where, in general, there should be more interest from a more diverse sampling of our society. That is precisely why we do have diversity scholarships and why we’ve put together a diversity program to try to figure this problem out.
Matt Besser
You know, there are not only – all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
Connie Chung
While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
Pat Buchanan
Harvard prides itself on its diversity – economic, racial, social, geographical – but it remains intellectually segregated. It’s not what conservative commentators seem to imagine – a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body.
Alexandra Petri