Quotes About Diversity

Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.

He (coach) looks for size, speed being rare among Norwegians and Germans, and for malleability or what he calls attitude.

Man is not satisfied with being just man. He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself.

Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur'an, the Bible, the (Sikh) Granth Sahib—as "true and accurate in all particulars."4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentieth century—already, as it were, being measured for its coffin—dance away from the dirge with renewed vitality? More pointedly, how could this escape

We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive.

If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different from ours, our communication will be limited. We must rely on pointing, grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We can communicate, but it is awkward. Language differences are part and parcel of human culture. If we are to communicate effectively across cultural lines, we must learn the language of those with whom we wish to communicate.

In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. —Romans 12:6

We need to love each person as someone God has created to be unique. — James Stuart Bell

If we are to communicate effectively across cultural lines, we must learn the language of those with whom we wish to communicate.

FIGURE 2-1 US employment in occupations based on importance of originality to job performance

How can we inform, engage, and serve people who don't have kids in our schools?

He was what he was, and if he was wrong or had mental problems, that was still the way he was, the way he had to live.

Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.

If they can make a fabulous gay man work like that, I thought, what can they do to the rest of us?

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

Almost all had ill-grown mustaches and sported pinkish sun-bleached sandals meant for some nonexistent third gender, along with buzz haircuts that spoke of either nationalism or retardation.

Every boulder on a talus slope is different, no two needles on a fir tree are identical. How could one part be more central, more important, than any other?

Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, "Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.

Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority.

I'm just surprised because most of the fantasy worlds in movies and books are lily white. -Well, that's just crazy!

if you ask enough people, you'll find someone who will disagree with the majority and give those nervous about risk a way out.

After all, though our yesterdays may be different, we all share the same tomorrow.

The common error of past improvised political defiance campaigns is the reliance on only one or two methods, such as strikes and mass demonstrations. In fact, a multitude of methods exist that allow resistance strategists to concentrate and disperse resistance as required.

I am not a talking vegetable, as you should be able to see. Even if a planet were to follow the one evolutionary way, out of some many millions, that leads to intelligence, it is impossible that it should duplicate in wood and leaf the form of a human being. The same thing might be said of stones, yet there are statues.