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“With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.”

“Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.”

Important Red Historical California Heritage Jumping Frogs County Cultural Heritage

Author:Robert Stack

“Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.”

Country Identity Diversity Instruments Historical Protection Heritage Adoption Uniqueness Intangible Cultural Diversity Cultural Heritage Cultural Identity

Author:Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

“The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.”

Source: Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry

“But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.”

Source: The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.”

Effort Economic Educational Legacy Preserves Who We Are Links Heritage Aesthetic Cultural Heritage

Author:Steve Berry

“In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.”

“I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.”

People Knows Born Treats Raised Backgrounds Heritage Adoption Orphan Cultural Heritage Lineage

Author:James A. Michener

“I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.”

World Culture Found Wealth Findings Legacy Cultural Heritage African Culture African Music

Author:Hugh Masekela

“Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation”

Helping Nations Rich Profound Heritage Cultural Heritage

Author:Nelson Mandela

“We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual and cultural heritage. Specifically, we need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected. And we need to care for our young people, not allowing them to be robbed of hope and condemned to life on the streets.”

People Needs Children Helping Care Spiritual Young Streets Protect Worthy Guides Allowing Heritage Protected Cultural Heritage Great Spiritual

Author:Pope Francis

“The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.”

Care Liberty Don't Care Hungry Heritage Homeless Cant Cultural Heritage

Author:E. M. Forster