Quotes About Diversity

Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen.

Our Lord has many weak children in His family, many dull pupils in His school, many raw soldiers in His army, many lame sheep in His flock. Yet He bears with them all, and casts none away.

One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.

The word Hijra, she said, meant a Body in which a Holy Soul lives.

Hope lies in texts that can accommodate and keep alive our intricacy, our complexity, and our density against the onslaught of the terrifying, sweeping simplifications of fascism.

India belongs not to Punjabis, Biharis, Gujaratis, Madrasis, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, but to those beautiful creatures—peacocks, elephants, tigers, bears…

I'd say that the only thing worth globalizing is dissent. It's India's best export.

Funding as fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could.

D'you know why God made Hijras? It was an experiment. He decided to create something, a living creature that is incapable of happiness. So he made us.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

I learned never to lazily conflate countries, their government's policies, and the people who live in them.

Achoo, Jose, Yako, Anian, Elayan, Kuttan, Vijayan, Vawa, Joy, Sumathi, Ammal, Annamma, Kanakamma, Latha, Sushila, Vi-jayamma, Jollykutty, Mollykutty, Lucykutty, Beena Mol (girls with bus names).

How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.

Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one.

Kashmir was one of the few places in the world where a fair-skinned people had been ruled by a darker-skinned one.

unity is not uniformity.

In America alone there are estimated to be nearly five hundred separate and distinct forms of Christianity.

Given a choice, people wriggle out, and those choices are not offered equally.

he had a wide range of choices for work.

what he has found is a stubborn, overwhelming, and embarrassing degree of inconsistency in what we do.

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order for us to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.