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Quotes About Diversity

At the micro level, the most violent fault lines are between Islam and its Orthodox, Hindu, African, and Western Christian neighbors. At the macro level, the dominant division is between "the West and the rest," with the most intense conflicts occurring between Muslim and Asian societies on the one hand, and the West on the other.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
If people are busy living out myths you don't like, leave them to it.
~ Samuel R. Delany
When you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Lots of people do things lots better than lots of others; but, today, so many people do so many things very well, and so many people are seriously interested in so many different things people do for their own different reasons, you can't call any thing the best for every person, or even every serious person. So you just pay real attention to the real things that affect you; and don't waste your time knocking the rest.
~ Samuel R. Delany
All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.
~ Samuel R. Delany
When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titles I could – nearly filled the box. But one of the more eccentric librarians at the internment compound I'd gotten permission to riffle had put up a whole shelf full of cubes of women writers or texts about women. She was convinced nobody could be truly educated unless they'd read them – though nobody I ever met had, except her, maybe. […]
~ Samuel R. Delany
My political writers are likely to be my fellow science fiction writers.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I had ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little myself." He glanced up at the sphere of the wrestling arena aloft in the bar. "And they didn't seem so weird or strange anymore.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Is that a good enough reason to think that China and India, Africa and the Americas, whether at pole or equator, are simply uncivilised because they are different?
~ Samuel R. Delany
high. She was Oriental, he
~ Samuel R. Delany
I think of myself as somebody who is interested in the differences, the differences between straight society and gay, the differences between male and female, but all of those presuppose a set of similarities on which those differences have to be marked out. Beginnings and endings are the hardest parts for thinkers who utilize such structures.
~ Samuel R. Delany
The most general definition of beauty… Multeity in Unity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And what if all of animated natureBe but organic harps diversely fram'd,That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweepsPlastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,At once the Soul of each, and God of All?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood, [Milton] attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakespeare becomes all things, yet for ever remaining himself.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not compare yourself to other people, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful mark in life.
~ Sana Dabbas
We all have a heartbeat.. We all have a soul.. We are all human. And that's all that matters
~ Sana Dabbas
the form of people's beliefs to the essence. There is no one right way; there is only the way that is right for you. There is something unique, perfect, and beautiful in every culture, in every system of belief. Look for what you have in common with others and accept and love those who are on different paths.
~ Sanaya Roman
You must stand up for everyone's right to be who they are— otherwise you may find one day that it is you who is singled out, who is seen as different, and then there will be no one to defend you." After
~ Sandi Toksvig
My audience is my audience and everybody in it forms an alliance every night. You perform for the entire crowd -- it's not about singling anyone out. And if your work is very, very daring and interesting, then smart people come to it, whether they're gay, straight, black, white, men, women. I mean, you gotta be able to get underneath what's really going on culturally, and then you're always gonna have a smart audience sitting in front of you.
~ Sandra Bernhard
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.
~ Sandra Lee
American, Khan understood the need to move forward. Being half Altaran,
~ Sandra Marton