Quotes About Diversity

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

America's strength is not our diversity our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients."

Coronel defendía también su preferencia por las feas diciendo que cuánta belleza debía haber en una mujer fea, cuando, a pesar de ser fea nos atraía,

Constituimos una sola raza mestiza que desde México hasta el estrecho de Magallanes presenta notables similitudes etnográficas.

O siamo capaci di sconfiggere le opinioni contrarie con la discussione, o dobbiamo lasciarle esprimere. Non è possibile sconfiggere le opinioni con la forza, perché questo blocca il libero sviluppo dell'intelligenza.

Quizás al final de este siglo se distingan dos clases de hombres, unos formados por la televisión y otros por la lectura

The Romans were different: they dealt in hard facts, allowing everyone to form his own opinion. For example, it made no difference to them whether the Jews believed in the Twelve Gods; the Romans nailed no theses on the portals of the Temple of Zion; they merely erected a statue of Caesar in front of it.

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

And it is this randomness of variation that is responsible for the enormous, often quite bizarre diversity of the living world.

we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society

the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

An acceptable proportion must be maintained whether in a novel, therapy or everyday life — between pain and other aspects of living. Humor, irony, diversity of interests, a sense of adventure, mystery, love — all are story elements passed over by those people who are most imprisoned within their pain. Such persons can be only temporarily interesting, either in a novel or in life itself.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

I grab a sticky note from my bedside table. Reasons It's Okay to Be Me: 1. This is exactly how God wanted me to be. 2. We don't all have to be doctors! 3. If everyone were a genius, we would have no normal people, and then geniusness would be a normality. Without me, Zach is not a genius. 4. Even though it is for Zach, I still get Cheesecake Factory too! Yay!

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

Freedom, Wash, is a word with different meanings to different people," he said, as though I did not know the truth of this better than he.

it was then I recognized that my own values --- the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman --- they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.