Quotes About Diversity

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If our deductions are correct, the politics of the next century will be much more varied and less important than that to which we have become accustomed.

For better or worse, the societies of the twenty-first century are likely to be more unequal than those we have lived in during the twentieth.

In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.

Incomes will become more unequal within jurisdictions and more equal between them.

Two men, three, a woman—four people total.

Religious or not, everyone celebrates Christmas in one way or another.

and Bobette Duck. Unbelievable. Might as well be called Stinky and Butt-Ugly.

the character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,

there is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.

pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,

There is little taste for 'high culture' especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation - making things accessible to the largest number of people.

the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.

The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.

Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.

When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other.

As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.

they didn't think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd.

It is always important to remember that for the bulk of coffee producers, flavour is not the main reason they have selected a certain variety to grow.

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them.