Transcript Cultural Diversity

Cultural Diversity
Mark Twain
November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
• Whenever you find yourself
on the side of the majority,
it's time to reform.
John F. Kennedy
May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963
• Our privileges can be no
greater than our obligations.
The protection of our rights
can endure no longer than
the performance of our
responsibilities.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968
• Nothing in the world is more
dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious
stupidity.
Malcolm X
May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965
• One of the first things I
think young people,
especially nowadays, should
learn is how to see for
yourself and listen for
yourself and think for
yourself.
American Black Muslim minister and a one-time
spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
Booker T. Washington
April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915
• I will permit no man to
narrow and degrade my soul
by making me hate him.
American educator, author and leader of the African
American community. He was freed from slavery as a child,
gained an education, and as a young man was appointed to
lead a teachers' college for black Americans. From this
position of leadership he rose into a nationally prominent role
as spokesman for his race. He was a pragmatist and an
accommodationist, and as such won friends in high places
who helped him further his agenda of education for African
Americans.
James Baldwin
August 2, 1924 – November 30, 1987
• People who shut their eyes to
reality simply invite their own
destruction, and anyone who
insists on remaining in a state
of innocence long after that
innocence is dead turns
himself into a monster.
American novelist, writer,
playwright, poet, essayist, and civil
rights activist best known for his
novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Gloria Steinem
born March 25, 1934
• Clearly no one knows what
leadership has gone
undiscovered in women of all
races, and in black and other
minority men.
American feminist icon, journalist and women's
rights advocate. She is the founder and original
publisher of Ms. magazine.