DIVERSITY
I
believe that diversity is a part of the natural order
of things - as natural as the trillion shapes and shades
of the flowers of spring or the leaves of autumn.
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I believe that diversity brings new solutions to an
ever-changing environment that sameness
is not only uninteresting but limiting.
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To deny diversity is to deny life - with all its richness
and manifold opportunities. Thus I affirm my citizenship
in a world of diversity, with it the responsibility to ...
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Be tolerant. Live and let live. Understand that
those who cause no harm should not be feared,
ridiculed, or harmed - even if they are different.
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Look for the best in others.
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Be just in my dealings with poor and rich,
weak and strong and whenever possible to
defend the young, old, the frail, the defenseless.
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Be kind, remembering how frail the human spirit is.
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Live the examined life, subjecting my motives
and actions to the scrutiny of mind and heart
so rise above prejudice and hatred. Care.
Gene Grissman
