Quotes About Diversity

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. —Vincent van Gogh

Have you ever considered that you are a valuable human being, not despite your differences but because of them?

Bottom line: people with ADD have higher levels of creative thinking than those without.

What I can tell you is what I learned from Jeff, and that is this: If you watch the strange, the other, the bizarre long enough, if you really see these people, you will find familiar pieces of yourself in their experiences. Empathy may be our only hope. I found in Jeff not just something familiar but also a better way to live.

People with brain and body differences have the lowest graduation rates, highest incarceration rates, and highest unemployment out of any minority group.

Fiction has no right answers, and reading fiction is not about getting things right.

As documented in two important books, Neurodiversity by Thomas Armstrong and The Power of Different by

We are all only temporarily able bodies and minds. Statistically, what have been labeled mental and physical "abnormalities" or disabilities are essential to the human condition, are in fact the human condition.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

You're like a lot of others, thinking everything come from the white man. Long as you believe that, you'll be blind to your own lights. You got to break the lie.

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.

Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent.

stamping out prejudice inevitably means making everybody share the same prejudice

IT IS VERY difficult for an ordinary heterosexual to imagine that an ordinary homosexual is in fact not, deep inside, a repressed heterosexual who needs to try harder with women or just get his act together.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Our inclination to act well towards others, whatever its source, tends to be confined to those with whom we share a common identity. The Greeks, the world's first philosophers and scientists, regarded anyone who was not Greek as a barbarian – a word derived from the sound of a sheep bleating. Our radius of moral concern has limits. The group may be small or large, but in practice as opposed to theory, we tend to see those not like us as less than fully human.

There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them 'the covenant with Noah' and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image [...]? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

When a human being makes many coins in a single mint, they all come out the same. God makes every human being in the same image, His image, yet they all emerge different.

I come from a religious tradition where we make a blessing over great scientists regardless of their views on religion.

At three in the morning we finished by dancing together. We knew we were different, we knew that there were deep divides between our respective faiths, but we had become friends. Perhaps that is all we should seek. Friends do not have to agree in order to stay friends. And friendships can sometimes help heal the world.

the truth that there is not one single system that can do justice to the moral life. What we need is a combination of several. Attempt to reduce them to "one very simple principle," in John Stuart Mill's phrase, and you will fail to do justice to morality itself.

the simplest definition of the Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry.