The Digital Diversity Quilt

“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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to happiness. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer

Barbara Humphery
Staff