Quotes About Diversity

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

Oh, we're not offended," Cassandra assured him. "We're just not men.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Most young men, particularly attractive ones, have sexual relations with their own kind. I suppose this is news to those who believe in the two teams: straight, which is good and unalterable; queer, which is bad and unalterable unless it proves to be only a Preference, which must then, somehow, be reversed, if necessary by force.

The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.

sees virtue, freedom in a less perfect union.

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

Was heißt denn Volk? Sind Christ und Jude eher Christ und Jude, als Mensch? Ah! Wenn ich einen mehr in Euch gefunden hätte, dem es genügt, ein Mensch zu heißen!

ACTUALLY, in many senses there is no "Muslim world" at all, but rather many Muslim worlds, or many Muslim countries and different kinds of Muslims.

Perhaps as sects multiply, belief diminishes.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

We are more than any family could be. We fought and argued and loved and learned through the long, cold voyage. We chose teams, disbanded, re-formed, chose again, and now the fit is perfection within diversity.

We are all different sexes, though with only two brands of equipment. —The Kiss of X, Alive Contains a Lie 2 Stone Hammer Alice Grale believes this is cataspace, all interaction but no motion.

M/F, F/M, M/M, F/F / is what happens between us / is what separates us. We are all different sexes, though with only two brands of equipment. —The Kiss of X, Alive Contains a Lie

At least fifty people are sitting or standing within sight of me. The oldest ones sit on their stoops beneath dented metal awnings. The middle-aged stand in little knots, the men sharing bottles wrapped in paper sacks, the women holding babies. I don't see any teenagers—it's as though they've been drafted for some special war—but several toddlers walk unsupervised through the parking lot. Three of them are naked.

when the Asian face was illuminated

The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.

We all come to Christ differently. Andrew and John found Jesus through a preacher's message. Simon Peter and Nathanael came to Jesus as the result of the personal efforts of another believer. In the case of Philip, there was no human instrument used by God. He literally met Jesus in the middle of a regular day. It didn't matter what these men were looking for. What they found was Jesus.

His training had consisted of learning a little bit about everything from people who knew everything about something.

Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.

I know, right?" Angelina says. "I don't even think of her as being deaf. I've always thought of her as just being Elena. She was born that way and Mom and Dad raised her—raised all of us—to just see that as a trait, like hair color. Something that didn't define her or us.

teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!