Quotes About Diversity

The Hebrew Bible is a sustained protest against empires and their attempt to impose a human unity on God's created diversity.

new antisemitism with its German forerunner is its irrational, self-contradictory character. Jews were hated in Germany because they were rich and because they were poor, because they were capitalists and because they were communists, because they kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere, because they believed in a primitive faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing.

Woman, man, mole, maggot – they're all the same, when all's said and done, except for slight variations in cognitive ability.

That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.

We daughters of Circassian mothers were called "cats" by our sisters who had Abyssinian blood in their veins, because some of us had the misfortune to possess blue eyes. And then they spoke to us sarcastically as "your Highness," as further proof of their indignation at our having come into the world with white skin. Nor did they forgive my father for selecting as pets his two daughters Sharife and Chole from the loathsome tribe of cats.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, i'll be nice to you. Simple as that!

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Everyone's got a different story.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Life is a banquet, chica. Believe it or not, there's more on the buffet than work.

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me:I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

L'immagine che conservo della mezz'ora passata con loro è una scena da film dell'orrore. Ci siamo noi, puliti e in ordine, incolumi, e attorno a noi la cerchia dei lebbrosi, dei radioattivi, dei naufraghi tornati allo stato selvaggio. Solo il giorno prima erano come noi, noi eravamo come loro, ma a loro è capitato qualcosa che a noi non è capitato, e adesso apparteniamo a due umanità separate.

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don't be so shallow.

Beware of a man of one book.

Every train track is different