Quotes About Diversity

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Each, for me, has its own charms, though none can be considered strictly "perfect" adaptations.

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

A certain amount of friction is inevitable whenever peoples of different customs and assumptions meet.... What is miraculous is how often it is possible to work together to sustain joint performances in spite of disparate codes, evoking different belief systems to affirm that possibility.

People, like Sybell, believe one can only sympathize with what one has experienced. That is why they are always saying, 'as a mother,' or 'as a wife.' If that were true the world would have to get on without sympathy, for no two people have the same experience. Only a shallow nature believes that a resemblance in two cups means that they both contain the same wine.

You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent -- salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by.

At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. - Attributed to John H. Doc Holliday

Whenever we said 'they,' Mama told us to name two." Claudette divides the lump of cheese, handing half to Albert. "Mama said if you can't name two actual real people, then you're just being prejudiced. So name two peasants who hate us.

No, sir," Wyatt insisted. "There can't be one law for rich Texans and another law for broke Texans, and another law for Negroes, and another one for Chinamen, and squaws, and Irishmen, and whores, and another one for everybody else. I can't parse it that way, Dog! I am not that smart! There's got to be one law for everybody, or I can't do this job. You want my badge or not?

On Earth, her son would have been a tragedy, but here in the forest, protected by the watchful gaze of a hundred fathers, all the children were safe, damaged or whole, quick or halt. No one was discarded as too broken or too odd. Imperfection was permitted in Trucha Sai, the only place on Rakhat where this was so. The Runa asked nothing of Isaac. They did not judge him and find him wanting.

As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.

It is interesting to note that the overwhelming majority of all human beings who have ever lived were or currently are Pagans.

No writer can impose his own standards onto any other, nor claim to speak for the whole genre.

café, and dozens of people wandering