Quotes About Diversity

There is a cast of manners peculiar and becoming to each age, sex, and profession; one, therefore, should not throw out illiberal and common-place censures against another. Each is perfect in its kind -- a woman as a woman; a tradesman as a tradesman.

I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.

And as we perceive that virtue assumes a multitude of diverse forms, this variety discovered in intelligent beings convinces us that the most perfect Being is He who unites in Himself the greatest number, or the sum total, of all these perfections.

It never crosses my mind whether certain readers will like or dislike certain characters. They are who they are.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

Our show was not about who you voted for at all, it's about how you get along with people who don't think like you.

It's all about fear. That same fear that gays have about coming out is the fear that women have about being feminists or being pro-women. It's the same fear that Jews have about being too Jewish. And it's the same exact fear that black writers have about being too ethnic.

Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.

You don't need to be "straight" to fight and die for your country; you just need to shoot straight.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Instead of contradicting each other's view, the task is to supplement each other's view in order to see the whole picture. Each of them has key pieces to the puzzle. Paradoxically, opposition becomes resource.

being "right" is the easy part. Finding the "rightness" within the opposite point of view is the challenge.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. Secondly,

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Charles de Gaulle once said, "The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

A bedrock principle of religious freedom is that freedom is achieved only if it is achieved for all.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I've spent the last thirty years of my life telling the parents of gay and lesbian kids that as Christians, the only thing any of us can do is to accept and love our kids unconditionally, just as they are. I am certainly not about to do anything else when it comes to our own son.

The Bible, at the end of the day, is a very human book.

We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none other than John Stuart Mill.

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.

What can be more calamitous than that men should be regarded as enemies and put to death, not for any crime or misdeed, but for being of independent mind?