Reflections on Respecting Differences

Quotations About the Importance of Respecting Differences

I hope that you enjoy this collection of quotes about respecting differences. Notice how many different compelling reasons for respecting differences are included – some from unexpected sources!

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. James Russell Lowell

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee

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

John F. Kennedy

For too long, we have focused on our differences – in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs – rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Bob Riley

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barry Goldwater

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

John F. Kennedy

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life – whoever you are, whatever our differences.

John Denver

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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