Quotes About Diversity

fair is a body pigment, that's all it is.

The species of life notice their differences in time of scarcity.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

you were made in the image of god I was not I was made in the image of a sissy truck-driver

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

I don't view you as a market segment. I view you as my partner, an individual reader, a friend as complex and maybe even as conflicted, as I am. Why should either of us "fit" anywhere?

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.?

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them – which is no one's definition of tolerance.

The church of Jesus Christ was a classless society. Its members didn't regard social status, color, or position. For them, there was no Jew or Greek in the body of Christ. There was no slave or free. There was no rich or poor. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11 ESV)

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples of all kins to live together and to work together in the same world at peace.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionaries.