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[[File:Wormhole_travel_as_envisioned_by_Les_Bossinas_for_NASA.jpg|thumb|There are a great number of [[LGBT]] [[people]] across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different — the [[geeks]] and the [[nerds]], and the people who felt they were not quite a part of [[society]], sometimes because they may have been [[gay]] or [[lesbian]]. 'Star Trek' is about [[acceptance]] and the [[strength]] of the [[w:Starship Enterprise|Starship Enterprise]] is that it embraces [[diversity]] in all its forms. ~ [[George Takei]]]]
[[File:Wikimedia Diversity flower 03.png|thumb|It is evident that [[God]] [[loves]] diversity. Perhaps the [[universe]] is constructed according to a [[principle]] of maximum diversity. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] ]]▼
'''[[w:Diversity|Diversity]]''' is a word which indicates the variety, or ranges of differences which exist in a group. In [[sociology]] and [[politics]] regarding [[multiculturalism]], '''[[w:Diversity (politics)|diversity]]''', is quality of social entities (neighborhoods, student bodies, nations, etc.) with members who have identifiable differences in their cultural backgrounds or lifestyles.
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== Quotes ==
[[File:3D Full Spectrum Unity Holding Hands Concept.jpg|thumb|We can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] ]]▼
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** [[Saul Bellow]], Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)
* Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.
** [[Annie Besant]]. In [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=n7ZMF8Mjh2oC ''The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs''], p. 85
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* If you look incessantly for variety, sooner or later you will discover that you need more [[wisdom]].
** [[Fausto Cercignani]] in: Brian Morris, ''Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Writings by Fausto Cercignani'', 2014, quote 51
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▲[[File:Wikimedia Diversity flower 03.png|thumb|It is evident that [[God]] [[loves]] diversity. Perhaps the [[universe]] is constructed according to a [[principle]] of maximum diversity. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] ]]
* A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who participate in an interest so that each has to refer his own action to that of others, and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from realizing the full import of their activity. These more numerous and more varied points of contact denote a greater diversity of stimuli to which an individual has to respond; they consequently put a premium on variation in action. They secure a liberation of powers which remain suppressed as long as the incitations to action are partial, as they must be in a group which in its exclusiveness shuts out many interests.
** [[John Dewey]], ''[[w:Democracy and Education|Democracy and Education]]'' (1916), [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Democracy_and_Education/Section_7#The_Democratic_Ideal Chapter 7: The Democratic Ideal]
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* [[Peace]] is not [[unity]] in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
** [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], [http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1990/gorbachev-lecture_en.html ''Nobel Lecture''], June 5, 1991.
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▲[[File:3D Full Spectrum Unity Holding Hands Concept.jpg|thumb|We can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] ]]
* If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/JFK630610.html ''Address at American University, Washington D.C.''] (10 June 1963)
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* Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
** [[Robert F. Kennedy]], ''Extremism, Left and Right'', pt. 3, "The Pursuit of Justice" (1964).
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* Leisure for reflection, somewhere near the end of a long career, leads me to thank God for allowing me to live in a society sufficiently free of Governmental control to allow the citizenry expression of its true diversity, which is to say, diversity of thought.
**[[David Mamet]], ''A Secret Knowledge'', p. 16
* In the [[Mahabharata]], the ceremony for the oath of a new king includes the admonition: 'Be like a garland-maker, O king, and not like a charcoal burner.' The [[w:garland|garland]] symbolizes social coherence; it is a metaphor for [[Dharma|dharmic]] diversity in which [[flowers]] of many colors and forms are strung harmoniously for the most pleasing effect. In contrast, the charcoal burner is a metaphor for the brute-force reduction of diversity into [[homogeneity]], where diverse living substances are transformed into uniformly lifeless ashes.
** Indras Net by [[Rajiv Malhotra]], p.10., 1st ed.
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** [[Paul of Tarsus]], 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 as quoted by [[John Locke]], ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=13VHAQAAMAAJ An Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles]'' (1812) pp.165-166
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[[File:TerranEmpire1.jpg|thumb|Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. ~ [[Gene Roddenberry]]]]
* Because of our [[Wiktionary:polyglot|polyglot]] background, we have had all the strength in the world.
** [[Ronald Reagan]] on 10 August 1988, while signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians, [http://history.wisc.edu/archdeacon/404tja/redress.html quoting himself] at the funeral of Kazuo Masuda in December 1945.
* Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.
** [[Gene Roddenberry]], ''[http://www.niatu.net/transfictiontrek/download/ Gene Roddenberry: The Star Trek Philosophy]''.
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* The current ideology of religious harmony emphasizes similarity—different religions are harmonious because they say the same thing; The older doctrine of multiple paths lays stress on their diversity—these paths are valid because they serve genuine different needs and answer to different natures. In short, they serve humanity not by being the same but by being different.
** Ram Swarup. Ramakrishna Mission. (1986). Ramakrishna Mission: In search of a new identity.
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* There are a great number of [[LGBT]] [[people]] across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different — the [[geeks]] and the [[nerds]], and the people who felt they were not quite a part of [[society]], sometimes because they may have been [[gay]] or [[lesbian]]. 'Star Trek' is about [[acceptance]] and the [[strength]] of the [[w:Starship Enterprise|Starship Enterprise]] is that it embraces [[diversity]] in all its forms.
** [[George Takei]] in [http://www.businessinsider.com/george-takei-star-trek-fans-accepting-of-gay-people-2015-6 "Here's why George Takei says ‘Star Trek’ fans are 'totally accepting' of sexual orientation"], by Aly Weisman, ''Business Insider'', Jun. 30, 2015.
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* "Diversity" has become an omnipresent emblem of openness and fairness. It is now an essential component of corporate responsibility: there is a widespread expectation for companies to show their commitment to "diversity", elements of a "diversity" policy and evidence (e.g., smiling pictures) of a diverse workforce in annual reports, websites, promotional and recruitment materials.
** Steven Vertovec, "Diversity and the Social Imaginary" (2012)
== See also ==
* [[Acceptance]]
* [[Tolerance]]
* [[Mutation]]
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