Quotes About Diversity

And given that our brains are plastic, and all develop differently based on our life experiences, why even expect that a few rules might be helpful to us all?

Cada persona es única y no solo de forma trivial, única de una forma importante, significativa y llena de significado. La pertenencia a un grupo no puede captar tal variabilidad. Y punto.

People differ in intelligence, which is in large part the ability to learn and transform.

The best player is therefore not the winner of any given game but, among many other things, he or she who is invited by the largest number of others to play the most extensive series of games.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto," said the Roman playwright Terence: nothing human is alien to me.

Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other.

The Principle of Unequal Distribution

Victor was Chinese by birth and Jewish by injection, having been raised amid the most savage young Jews anywhere on Long Island: the towns of Jericho and Syosset.

Queer. And not in the way I like.

Gee, I wasn't as up on my Native American traditions as the chick who used to call herself Faun fucking Windsong even though she was fifteen sixteenths as lily-white as me. Imagine that.

And besides, I might be white, but I'm most definitely not vanilla.

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

smaller populations are inherently more variable.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

Siempre has sido especial, no voy a mentirte. - Yo me siento diferente, pero no especial. - Diferentes somos todos. Especiales hay pocos.

Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!

Seeing other cultures is the best way to learn which things you thought were universal but are actually local.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Florence fue triplemente discriminada: por ser extranjera, por hablar francés y por ser mujer.»

La historia de América, de los incas a acá, ha de enseñarse al dedillo, aunque no se enseñe la de los arcontes de Grecia. Nuestra Grecia es preferible a la Grecia que no es nuestra.

The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies that are diverse in form and color.

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy: Arte soy entre las artes, En los montes, monte soy.

Injértese en nuestras Repúblicas el mundo; pero el tronco ha de ser el de nuestras Repúblicas. Y

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.