Quotes About Diversity

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

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

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

for every Aretha, there's a chorus of cat-stranglers.

Music has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Every car on every train on every line holds a surprise, a random sampling of humanity brought together in a confined space for a minute or two - a living Rubik's Cube.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

In all the miracles of Jesus recorded in Scriptures, not one of them was done the same way as the previous one.

Instead, I hope to raise the value we place on the call of God, in whatever way that call manifests in someone's life. The dentist, the lawyer, the housewife, the mechanic and all the rest are called by God to do what they do to more fully express who He is in a functioning and healthy society.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids.

the inexhaustible pages of nature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ written over and over uncountable times, written in characters of every size and color, sentences composed of sentences, every part of a character a sentence.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

they avoid the exploration of evolution, because it reminds us all that humankind may not be that special in nature's scheme. What happens to other species also happens to us.

All of us, everyone reading these words, have made it this far in life. None of us would be here if we weren't genetically good enough. That's a rather encouraging thought. We celebrate certain people's appearance or their wit, but we are all so much more alike than we are different. The proof is in the living: We all made it. No matter how ugly you think someone else is, he or she got here just like (as) you did. There's a lid for every pot, as the saying goes.

Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.

the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.