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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
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.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.
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