Quotes About Diversity

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day—would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

And if everything is geeky, maybe nothing is geeky, and that means that gate-keeping in geek and nerd culture is a pointless waste of time.

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don't pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

Noise is mostly a by-product of our uniqueness, of our "judgment personality.

We can live comfortably with colleagues without ever noticing that they actually do not see the world as we do.

before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position. This procedure makes good use of the value of the diversity of knowledge and opinion in the group. The standard practice of open discussion gives too much weight to the opinions of those who speak early and assertively, causing others to line up behind them.

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other.

counties are different from other counties for a reason, that there must be a cause that explains this difference. As we shall see, however

Variability in judgments is also expected and welcome in a competitive situation in which the best judgments will be rewarded.

A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position. This procedure makes good use of the value of the diversity of knowledge and opinion in the group.

Life, however, is usually a between-subjects experiment

It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.

Simon shook his head. 'The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the whole damn world is unraveling.

It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

Dans ses études, l´homme a pris la fâcheuse habitude de tout morceler, de se spécialiser, pour employer le terme consacré. Seule une vue globale et synthétique des phénomènes peut donner les clés de la véritable compréhension.

Precisamos, amigos e amigas, nos libertar desse conceito que desvaloriza a nossa diversidade. Precisamos entender que não existem índios no Brasil. Precisamos aprender como chamá-los, festejá-los, conhecê-los e, principalmente, valorizá-los. Precisamos encontrar um lugar para eles dentro de cada um de nós. E a maneira em que mais bem podemos fazer isso é conhecendo-os da melhor forma possível.

Muito recentemente é que nós estamos conquistando espaço para podermos contar a história segundo o nosso olhar, o olhar dos indígenas, ou seja, sob uma visão de mundo particular. Não se pode pensar que a nossa história segue o mesmo percurso da ocidental. E isso é um outro nó, que necessita ser desatado.