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.	The 34th president of the USA Dwight Eisenhower 20th January,1953	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	It means that every nation put the privileges in the first place not the principles will lose everything.
2.	Luther King JR 1960s.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	It means that are in the middle of the circle of mutuality.
3.	Sheikh Zayed	Who don`t has a past will not has a present or future.	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.	Mahatma Gandhi 1940s.	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	It means that the culture begins with the people in the childhood and grows up and stays in the heart and the soul.
5.	Amim 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.	It means that we should respect traditions if they are respectable. And respect the rights of all in the community.
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 personality is based on other people and the environment.
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	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	It means that everyone who loves his country is great but why it stays at the border of that country.
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 1970s	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?	It means that people should have a spirit of forgiveness to forgive all people and their mistakes.
12.	Martin Luther King, Jr August 28, 1963	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.	It means that the world will change in the future and they will forget the racism and they will get valuation by their behavior and their personalities.