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Diversity

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen

Acceptance

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis

Reserve Judgement

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. Robert Louis Stevenson

Awarness

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

Attitudes

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.Viktor Frankl

Courage

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

Appreciation

The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. Jerome Nathanson

Action
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

Individuality

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Make a Difference

I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

More Quotes

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. Franklin Thomas, in Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983.

In my view, humanism relies on reason and compassion. Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people. Molleen Matsumura 2/95

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, jr.

"Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good." ~Baltasar Gracian