Quotations by Famous People

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity Learning Objective 3

Quotations by Famous People

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quotation in your own words:

Cultural Views

	Speaker and Date	Quotation	Meaning
1.	Dwight D. Eisenhower Tuesday, January 20, 1953	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	If people prefer freedoms over values they will lose both of them.
2.	Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	Everything a person does affect others.
3.	Sheik Zayed	"He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.”	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
4.	Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	A country’s culture exit in the minds of people living their.
5.	Amin Maalouf	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	Traditions worth to be valued as they are respectable. And human rights too.
6.	ML King Jr.	God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men .He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
7.	Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together	My humanity depends in others.
8.	Frank Borman	“When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?”	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
9.	Pablo Casals 1974	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	Loving your country is good thing but you shouldn’t stop loving.
10.	DD. Eisenhower	The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
11.	Sheikh Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	People should forget the wars and live together.
12.	Martin Luther King, Jr	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	He want his kids to live in a country without racism