Quotes About Diversity

"If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier."

You can learn a lot about yourself by getting to know another species. Even humans.

I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dull as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

She'd been surprised to learn it had a semi-arid climate, with cactus plants growing right beside palm trees.

some of them sent curious glances her way. She imagined they didn't get many black patrons here…

Learning to spot "that stuff "—whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist—is an important skill for children to develop.

If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won't have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.

Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

No two families are alike," he said.

Eddy guessed her to be middle-aged, but like most women of color she wore her age well.

Another interesting aspect was my brief mention of Dr. Alexander Augusta. Born free in Virginia in 1825, he was the highest ranking Black officer in the Union Army, and went on to become the first African-American professor of medicine.

Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He,

William Leidesdorff,

bigotry practiced by those outside the race was harmful enough without bigotry being meted out by those within.

Maria W Stewart women of all races can lecture now.

Nubia is Wonder Woman's Black twin sister, and Sam Wilson is a Black guy who used to be the Falcon but is now Captain America.

We have these cultural norms, and we allow people to say ugly things. We don't have to like it, we don't have to invite them to our dinner parties, but you should let them say it.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

The answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like you or worship the way you do or don't get their news from the same source as you do. We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

If you was white, should be all right,If you was brown, could stick around,But as you's black, whoa brother,Get back, get back, get back.

The crowd is not us. It never is.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.