Diversity is perhaps responsible for a state of disequilibrium necessary for the biological and cultural survival of mankind.
Diversity is the problem of how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
Diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance.
Diversity is the adaptation of varieties of language into one another. It is at once a human problem and a human resource.
Diversity is, for liberals, easy to promote because they do not have to live with the consequences of immigrants who play loud music at all hours, keep crowing chickens and take over baseball fields to play soccer.
Diversity is not only about learning to tolerate differences. It is about welcoming them as the richness which can lead to true intelligence.
Diversity is neither about nurturing local traditions nor about preserving the outward form in which each period has clothed that diversity. Such diversity can never be preserved beyond the period which gave it birth. Diversity is about hearkening for the stirrings of new life, fostering latent potentialities, and being prepared to view without surprise, repugnance or revolt whatever may strike us as strange in the many new forms of social expression.