Diversity Honored
As Atlanta is a place of significance to the American civil rights movement (among the hockey-related achievements is John Paris Jr. becoming the first black to coach a pro hockey team, the Atlanta Knights of the International Hockey League), and 2008 is the 50th anniversary of Willie O'Ree breaking hockey's color barrier with the Boston Bruins, the NHL chose the All-Star weekend to honour the diversity of the league.
Read more about this topic: 56th National Hockey League All-Star Game
Famous quotes containing the words diversity and/or honored:
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Those who do good will be honored by the spirits; those who do evil will be punished by Heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.