The Digital Diversity Quilt

A patchwork of quotes submitted by the College Community affirming our
commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion on our campuses.

Submit your Quote

  • “When we listen and celebrate what is both common and different, we become a wiser, more inclusive, and better organization.”
    -Pat Wadors

    Crystal Killebrew
    Staff

  • “The future is limitless when we can be seen, heard, and understood. Go ahead and be yourself!”
    -John Lewis

    Trish Passanante
    Staff

  • “Diversity is the one thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.”
    -Author Unknown

    Anne Spagnolia
    Staff

  • “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
    -Stephen R. Covey

    Kathie Kane
    Staff

  • No one person is alike. We can all learn from our differences.

    Cindy Saler
    Staff

  • “We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
    -Jimmy Carter

    Kathie Kane
    Staff

  • “There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”
    -Pablo Picasso

    Trish Passanante
    Staff

  • “Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.”
    -Mary Kay Ash

    Sherri Bonafiglia
    Staff

  • “Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.”
    -Verna Myers”

    Crystal Killebrew
    Staff

  • Our nation seems to focus on how we differ from one another more than how we are alike. If we are to continue to develop as a country, we need to change that perspective…for all of us.

    Don Borden
    Staff

  • “I never lose. I either win or learn.”
    -Nelson Mandela

    Lisa Gibson-Kellam
    Staff

  • Celebrate and embrace what makes you uniquely you…you are one of a kind…be your authentic self!

    Margo Venable
    Staff

  • “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
    -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Linda Palmer
    Staff

  • “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    -Benjamin Franklin

    Don Borden
    Staff

  • “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry
    are equal in value no matter what their color.”
    -Maya Angelou

    Melissa Brittingham
    Staff

  • “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
    -Maya Angelou

    Elena Bogardus
    Faculty

  • “If you don’t have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive.”
    – Catrice M. Jackson, author

    Ellen Hernandez
    Faculty

  • BE lieve
    THE re is
    GOOD in everyone

    Gail Stewart
    Faculty

  • “DIVERSITY:
    Different
    Individuals
    Valuing Each other
    Regardless of Skin
    Intellect
    Talents or
    Years

    Elena Bogardus
    Staff

  • “If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.”
    -Howard Zinn

    Lis Bass
    Faculty

  • “Change your Thoughts and You’ll Change Your World”.

    DRU JONES-EDWARDS
    Staff

  • “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
    -Martin Luther King Jr.

    Fatemah Sedighi
    Faculty

  • We must work to better understand who we are, how we got to be this way, and how to transcend our issues, to finally create environments that reflect what is best in all of us

    Curt Watkins
    Staff

  • “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
    -Martin Luther King

    Eric Davis
    Staff

  • “It is not worthy of a human being to give up.”
    -Alva Myrdal

    Norma Santana
    Staff

  • You have been given this piece of green earth. What are you prepared to do with it?
    -J. Krishnamurti

    David Edwards
    Staff

  • Diversity is the art of thinking independently, together.
    -Malcolm Forbes

    Nicole Rance
    Staff

  • “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads are equal in value no matter what their color.”
    -Maya Angelou

    Marsha Patrick
    Faculty

  • We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity an green development
    -George Papandreou

    Kay F. Byrd
    Staff

  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
    -Mark Twain

    Felicia Bryant
    Staff

  • “Uniformity is the death of life. Wherever there is life, there is diversity.”
    -Kurien Kunnumpuram

    Judith Burns
    Staff

  • “You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
    -John Wooden

    Bill Moen
    Staff

  • “I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change… I’m changing the things I cannot accept”
    -Angela Y. Davis

    Kalanni Plaza
    Staff

  • “In complete darkness we are all the same; it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us. Don’t let your eyes deceive you.”
    – Janet Jackson

    Derena Shafer
    Staff

  • “Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
    – Albert Einstein

    Rosalia DeNardo
    Staff

  • Sure, our differences make us strong,
    But not as strong as all of the wonderful
    Things that we share with one another.

    Scott Oliver
    Staff

  • “Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.”
    – Angelina Jolie

    Maryjulia O’Connor
    Staff

  • “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
    – Stephen R. Covey

    Rosalia DeNardo
    Staff

  • “We are a multicultural country – always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.”
    ~Cheech Marin

    Zaida Nogué
    Staff

  • Diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together to make a perfect chord.
    Abdu’l Baha’

    Irvin Sweeney
    Staff