Quotes About Diversity

Nosotros, como todas las razas, tenemos nuestros santos y nuestros pecadores, nuestros cobardes y nuestros héroes.

Siempre habrá personas con un punto de vista distinto. En mi país tenemos demócratas y republicanos. Aquí vosotros tenéis nazis y antinazis. Eso es lo que hace que el mundo no se pare.

the creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.

Another party, who took an iron boat named the Explorer into the Black Canyon of the lower Colorado River, came across an Indian of what they considered such staggering ugliness that one of their number, a German visitor attached to the party, voted to kill him, pickle him in alcohol as a zoological specimen, and take him back to New York for forensic inspection. The proposal was rejected, however, and the hapless man lived.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is never the given that confers superiorities: 'virtue', as the ancients called it, is defined on the level of 'that which depends on us'.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

In truth, to go for a walk with one's eyes open is enough to demonstrate that humanity is divided into two classes of individuals whose clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, gaits, interests, and occupations are manifestly different. Perhaps these differences are superficial, perhaps they are destined to disappear. What is certain is that right now they do most obviously exist.

To reject the notions of the eternal feminine, the black soul, or the Jewish character is not to deny that there are today Jews, blacks, or women: this denial is not a liberation for those concerned but an inauthentic flight.

Ils tenaient beaucoup à respecter les nuances de leurs rapports. Une amitié est un délicat édifice; elle s'accommode de certains partages mais elle réclame aussi des monopoles. Chacune des combinaisons que nous formions - à deux, à trois, à quatre - avait sa physionomie et ses agréments: il convenait de ne pas sacrifier cette diversité.

The fact of being a human being is infinitely more important than all the singularities that distinguish human beings;

To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

Comme, dans les partis politiques, il y a des démocrates qui admettent plusieurs partis, de même dans le domaine des opinions les gens larges reconnaissent une valeur aux opinions avec lesquelles ils se disent en désaccord. C'est avoir complètement perdu le sens même du vrai et du faux. D'autres, ayant pris position pour une opinion, ne consentent à examiner rien qui lui soit contraire. C'est la transposition de l'esprit totalitaire.

Christian liberty does not mean that you welcome fellow Christians only when you have sorted out their views on X or Y (or with a view to doing that).

He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.

Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine.

My one ambition is to get all Americans to realize that they are, and must continue to be, the greatest Race on the face of this old Earth, and second, to realize that whatever apparent Differences there may be among us, in wealth, knowledge, skill, ancestry or strength—though, of course, all this does not apply to people who are racially different from us—we are all brothers, bound together in the great and wonderful bond of National Unity, for which we should all be very glad.

American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American.

We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

And what difference is there in the color of the soul?

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have lifestyles.

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say Sushi! out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, T-bone steak!

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

Living in London is like living in a movie set, from the Dickensian backstreets to the glinting tower blocks to the secret garden squares. You can be anyone you want to be.