Mahatma Gandhi Diversity Quotations

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.