Quotes About Diversity

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

I guess the British audience accepted us for being refreshing and interesting.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

To turn the radio on and hear so much more diversity, it's so refreshing. That voice that cuts through what you've been hearing, it's inspiring.

I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven't had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor.

As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

It's so refreshing when I walk in and see a bunch of Asian actresses all competing for the same role because it makes me feel like I have a genuine shot.

Most of the time actresses are just left to play the actor's wife or girlfriend so there is not much to do. 'Chalo Dilli' was a refreshing change which was different and that's why I decided to work in it.

You just sort of get used to being one of the only women on set, so it's really refreshing to start to enter a time when that's not the case anymore.

It's refreshing when plus-size styling is exciting and pushes boundaries rather than safe and boring.

A huge number of real 'Chase' fans have taken me to their hearts and people are recognizing me out and about and are saying how pleased they are with me making a refreshing change to the lineup - not that they don't like the other guys but people like that we're all different.

I remember, as a kid, I loved kimchi. It wasn't weird to me at all because it was in our house all the time. There was never a second when a huge jar wasn't in our refrigerator. I remember bringing it to school, and that just did not go over well at all.

I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere else to go. It consoles me for everything. For me, the language no longer belongs to the colonialists.

Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?

As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world.

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the children come from different countries and speak different languages. It's difficult to find things they can all connect and interact with that are non-verbal. Sport is it.

Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

In countless communities across America today, refugees are giving back to the country that has given them a new start.

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.