Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

We should accept diversity and pluralism and learn to live in them, and learn how to grow in them, without losing our identity and compromising ourselves

Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

I think that is very important to me, that everyone loves everyone.

If we were all sitting around as different races and as different religions, if you were a real friend of these people, you would bust on them all.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.