82 Quotes About Integration

Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.

She [Melba's mother] would tell us the story of the lone black man who was trying to integrate the law school. In the classroom, he was forced to sit confined by a white picket fence erected around his desk and chair.

Mother [Lois Marie Pattillo] began meeting with a few others from our community who were also determined to be admitted to the graduate school of education at the university.

My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

The mind divides the world into a million pieces. The heart makes it whole.

No help is insignificant,No kindness is too puny.With tiny steps we'll humanize the world,When we see every human as family.

His healing was a process of self-reconciliation, accepting the darkest parts of himself and integrating them into who he knew himself to be.

Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge.