Divine Providence has not bestowed upon any race a monopoly of patriotism and character. Calvin Coolidge

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Progress tends very largely on the encouragement of variety. Whatever tends to standardize the community, to establish fixed and rigid modes of thought, tends to fossilize society. Calvin Coolidge

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Whether one traces his Americanisms back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat. Calvin Coolidge

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We are not likely to improve our own condition or help humanity very much until we come to the sympathetic understanding that human nature is about the same everywhere, that it is rather evenly distributed over the surface of the earth, and that we are all united in a common brotherhood. Calvin Coolidge

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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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All men are born free and equal - free at least in their right to be different. Some people want to homogenize society everywhere. I'm against the homogenizers in art, in politics, in every walk of life. I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost

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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities. James Fredericks

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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. Helen Keller

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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd

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