Quotes About Diversity

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

El único que tal vez no sea el hombre es el que no se parece a los otros. El que rebasa o no alcanza a los demás. El que crece o se disminuye hasta quedar fuera de las estaturas normales. Ése no, porque pierde la medida cordial de la semejanza.

The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices...

All religions are true but none are literal.

In my lifetime I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I even know that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never in my life met him; if he exists, he exists unknown to me.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

Now, there is no such thing as 'man' in this world. In my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, and so on. I even know, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare I've never encountered him.

Never think you speak for all of yourself.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

He put out a hand for Dave to shake. "You're the only new friend of Tom's I've met. And you're just what I expected." "Yup," Dave said. "I wear three-hundred-dollar suits and drive an eight-thousand-dollar car. Mr.Taylor-stop measuring people that way." "It's American," Taylor said defensively. "And Nigerian. And Bolivian," Dave said. "It started in Sumer.

Five, six, seven eight-," Cecil grinned. "-Gay is just as good as straight," Dave said.

Do I look like a fag?" "I don't know what a fag looks like," Dave said. "And neither does anyone else.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

What you should do is hire very smart people who are a good fit. And then you should expose them (and yourself) to ideas. The ideas should come from within and from outside.

Un acte n'a plus du tout le même caractère, la même valeur ou le même sens, s'il est accompli par un riche ou un pauvre, un célibataire ou un père de six enfants, un vieillard ou une jeune fille

Aime moi noire, disait-elle à un homme. Blanche, tout le monde m'aimerait.

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains.