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"They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them."

"Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity."

"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."

"Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!"

"Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety."

"Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!"

"Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don't get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!"

"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."
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"Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams."

"We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime."

"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options."

"The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor."

"Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods."

"Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues."

"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston."
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